Day 19 Just a Day of Riding

This was a pretty exciting day.

I rode over all the same route that I had so much trouble with last week and didn't even slow down. It seems it's so much easier this time. I don't know if it's the fact that I have had more experience or whether it's just a much easier road now. Anyway, it was very enjoyable riding the same stuff again. 

It was amazing. First, I'm leaning into turns on gravel, then I'm leaning into turns on mud, then I'm leaning into turns on gravel and mud mixed! I was a wild man! Note to self: Be sure and sign up for Dakar in 2010 also!!

Well, maybe I wasn't leaning all that much!

I met up with a guy named Frank, from Sioux City, Iowa at the hotel I was staying at in Tok. He was riding a Gold Wing and was going the same way I was so we rode together from Tok to Haines Junction. Turns out he's the "Donald Trump" of tires in Sioux City. At least he was. He  sold out to his kids and now he's "retired" like me. I think he had four or five stores around Iowa and now each one of his kids runs a store plus a friend of the kids that bought a share of the company runs one.

One of the bad spots coming down was along the Liard Lake area where they were doing construction. Coming down it was mostly mud and I slipped around quite a bit. This time I slid around some but not near enough to get excited about. After we stopped, Frank said "that was a really bad section, wasn't it?". I didn't really think so. He should have been on the Dalton Highway! Just caught a glimpse of a Black Bear today. I'm pretty sure it was a bear eating something on the ground but he never raised his head so I could get a good look at him. From where I was, he looked like a big black ball of fur. I hope I can get at least one good picture of a bear before I'm out of "bear country". 

A bunch of Harley riders were staying where I was and they said they're headed for the Dalton Highway going to Prudhoe Bay. I didn't say anything about what everyone told me about Harleys and the Haul Road.  They'll find out I guess.

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