When I got up this morning Bill Wing and the Arkansas group were already gone. They must have gotten up early. They were going to go to Hyder, Alaska which is on the way home, more or less. It's near the West coast of Canada.
Did a little sight seeing here in Watson Lake before I left town. I went to see the famous "Sign Post Forest". Don't ask me how this started but a long time ago somebody put up a post and put a sign on it. Then someone added to it and then someone added another post and you should see it today. It is unbelievable. I can't even guess how many posts there are now and each one is covered front and back by signs. License plates, city limit signs, personal signs and just signs with anything on them. I took a lot of pictures. I wish I had thought to bring a sign to put up. I found a couple put there by Springfield people. It's really something to see.
I've seen a lot more bikes like mine up here. I also see a lot of people heading home. They probably came out around the first of June like I had originally planned.
I saw my first Honda motorcycle today. When I stopped to gas up and have lunch at Teslin, there was a guy gassing up and he was riding a 1981 Goldwing. He was a younger guy and said he only had ten days vacation so he basically just rode up to Alaska to see what he needed to plan for his real vacation when he had more time. He just spent four days getting to Alaska from Oregon. He must have been riding some really long days to make it that quickly. He said his Goldwing didn't have fuel injection and he could certainly tell it when he went up and down the mountains. Depending on the altitude he was at, the bike had decent horsepower or it didn't. It didn't run very well at all at higher altitudes. That's just one of the things fuel injection fixed with cars and motorcycles.
I had more lessons on dirt roads today. Turns out that the Alaska Highway North of Watson Lake has been patched recently and the way they do patches is to put gravel there. Every once in a while there'll be about 50 yards or so of gravel. Pretty exciting.
I've been over several metal bridges since getting up here and today was the best one of all at the Teslin bridge. It was not smooth metal. So, besides the wobbles you get from riding on that metal grating, I also had the bike bouncing up and down from the uneven metal. That was really exciting. The bike was going all over the place and it was a long bridge. Maybe a quarter mile long. And, as I get on, I see on the other end a huge motor home starts on the bridge. That gives me even less room to wobble around on the bridge. Made it ok though. I hope that's the worst of the metal bridges.
I forgot to mention that I've seen three different bicycle riders on the Alaska Highway. One was an older guy I saw just after seeing the coyote standing on the road. The guy must have bicycled past the coyote just before I went by. Another was an older guy I saw after I saw the bears. He was going towards the bears. I hope he didn't end up as dinner. The last one I saw was a younger guy out in the middle of nowhere. He was just peddling down the road about twenty miles from the nearest town.
There is just so much unbelievable scenery up here. I wish I had a way to easily take pictures. What I need is a camera like Sharon's that is small and can be operated with just one hand. The scenery today was the best so far. Lakes high in the mountains. In fact, one of them was called Summit Lake because it is at the top of a pass. Really spectacular to see.
It's 10:45pm local time and the sun is shining brightly here against the building. This may be tough to handle if it never gets dark.
wifi isn't working here so this won't go out until some time tomorrow. Phooey ! ! ! !
More tomorrow.
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