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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Latitude 70 Norte

Depois de passarmos pelo Denali Park chegamos em Fairbanks na tarde do dia 07/07/15, mas a cidade estava tomada por uma densa fumaça em razão de um incêndio na região e, por isso, adiantamos nossos planos e partimos na manhã seguinte para o norte do Alasca. Pretendíamos subir a Dalton Highway, que liga Fairbanks a Prudhoe Bay em um trajeto de quase 800 quilômetros, dos quais cerca de 75% são de cascalho. Essa estrada é… Ler mais

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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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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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Culture shock USA

  Bowling down the freeway today from San Diego to Los Angeles we were momentarily in the shadow of a passing pick-up truck. I say pick-up truck but this thing (a Dodge I think) was called a ‘Big Horn Heavy…

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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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Into the Arctic

After driving the Top of the World Highway, we found ourselves in Tok, Alaska.  We were planning on camping nearby, but unfortunately, there were several wild fires nearby, and the air was extremely smoky!  We decided to power through and try to make it up to Fairbanks. We arrived in...
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