Day 20 Rain Close

The temps were pretty low leaving Haines Junction this morning. I was actually getting cold. It was overcast and looked a lot like it was going to rain but I never saw any. 

But before departing Haines Junction, I had to go back to that bakery and have one of those raisin cinnamon rolls. My, my, my but they are good. Yummy, is the word that comes to mind. 

At a rest stop along the way I met a magazine writer that was on a KTM Adventure. He was heading for Prudhoe Bay to give the KTM a real testing. I'm going to watch his web site to see what he thought of it. 

Nothing special to report today. It was just a dreary overcast day the whole day until just outside Watson Lake. Then the sun started to shine. But, I understand the weather forecast is for rain tomorrow. It figures, I just start having fun again and the rain starts back up. I hope it isn't heavy at least. I can ride ok in lighter rain but the heavy stuff is really hard to ride in. Visibility goes down to almost nothing in heavy rain.

When I stopped for gas at one RV park with a restaurant, I met a guy from Missouri, I think he said Kearney(sp?) Missouri. He was riding a Gold Wind and I can't remember what his son was riding but they are on a big trip. He said he's put 6,000 miles on it so far and had a lot of places to go yet. They were eating in the restaurant there at the RV park. 

A couple of bikes were broke down in Watson Lake. One of them a Kawasaki KLR 650 with a broken chain and one of the few Buell / Harleys I've seen up here. The Buell had a broken drive belt. And of course, nobody within 1,000 miles has one. I think he's getting one shipped up from Washington or Oregon. That bike looks so small, it looks like a 10 year old kid could sit on it and touch the ground ok. Boy, is it small! I don't know what the model is but it looks fairly new. 

When I went to have supper at the restaurant at Watson Lake, what do I see but the guy from Kearney with his son and they're eating again. I asked them if I didn't just see them eating not too long ago at the RV park down the road. The son said "we eat a lot!". From looking at the dad, I could believe it. He was pretty round in the middle. 

Lots of motorcycles still heading up towards Alaska and Prudhoe Bay, Those Canadians make a lot of money off Americans going to and from Alaska on the Alaska Highway. We are a gold mine to them. 

As a side note, I found out that Canadians pay over $14 for a pack of cigarettes! And, the price is going over $15 within the next couple of months. The Canadians who told me this didn't realize what they were doing, but as they were telling me this, they were lighting up cigarettes!!! The price for them is fast approaching $1 per cigarette. Quite expensive by any standards. 

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