Coming home

A short post about our trip home followed by a few photos from the trip …….. After endless discussions we decided that Seattle was a good place to bring our journey through the Americas to a close. Various options had presented…

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The Haul Road

The Dalton is supposed to be a really big deal. One of the most remote stretches of road in the U.S. At the end is just an oil field work site and the Arctic Ocean. It’s the farthest north you can drive in the Americas, so it’s been on our list since we made it read more

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School Report – The Arctic Circle then Home

Dear Children As Mr Pygott has already told you, Grumpy and I have ridden Bertie up to the Arctic Circle in Alaska. From the bottom of the world to the Arctic Circle we have ridden 40,000km which is like riding…

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The Arctic Circle – Our final frontier …….

For over a week we had been waiting for the Dalton Highway to re-open after the flooding and finally we were in Fairbanks, the jump off point for the Highway. Jim went off to see Dan Armstrong at Adventure Cycleworks click…

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The journey North (again)

Not satisfied with one trip above the Arctic Circle. Who would be? We decided it was time to investigate the Canadian Arctic and find out the Northwest Territories had to offer (or at least the small part of it that we could afford to visit—both financially and in terms of time). It seemed like the logical thing […]

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The Journey North

The time had finally come to drive the Dalton Highway up to Deadhorse to officially ‘start’ our journey. While we had been camping in Fairbanks, we had met a couple from Texas who had just completed the drive themselves. They spoke of lots of mud, roadsides teeming with wildlife and dipping their feet in the ice-filled […]

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