Rachel's C90 Adventures from Alaska to Argentina – Life in the fun lane!
We got up pretty late as usual. It was a beautiful sunny day, and the yellow leaves on the trees were a striking contrast against the bright blue sky. It was most definitely autumn, and I loved it. Leaves covered the ground and continued to fall, flipping over in the breeze as they did. …
It was so wet and grey that we couldn’t fully appreciate the scenery. It would have been a beautiful ride on a dry, sunny day, with mountains and hills on both sides. We rode past big lakes and through Chugach National Forest, and as we got nearer to Seward it cleared a little and I…
We stopped off for lunch at a place in Ninilchik, Ed hadn’t eaten all day and I was due for my next feed. We didn’t really have that far to go so we took our time, we weren’t in any rush, as usual. We finally finished up and went outside, where we got chatting to…
As soon as we got on to the coast road, the wind was ridiculous. We were getting blown all over the place. Couple that with not actually being able to see, and I started to think ‘Hmm, this is actually quite dangerous!’ And if it went seriously wrong, there were only two options; into…
We rode back to Motoquest to say hello and pick up our post, when we spotted Mark again. Chrissy from Motoquest had kindly offered us a place to stay, so as Mark knew where she lived, he provided an escort. It was so nice to have a house to stay in, to recoup and relax…
We woke up late at Billies; the cool hostel we’d decided to return to after having enjoyed such a lovely stay before. We had a day of catching up with internet related stuff and soon decided to stay another night as we’d never be ready to leave before midnight! Billie kindly did us a deal…
We made a quicker getaway than usual due to a rather wet mosquito munching morning. We’ve discovered two things that speed us up while outside the tent; Rain and mosquitoes. Once combined they speed us up quite considerably! As the bugs were having me for breakfast I decided not to hang around for mine so…
