Archive for the ‘Day 11’ Category
June 23rd, 2009 | 
Author: After last nights breakfast at Denny’s that was an hour wait and not shut eye till 2:00 am, we did get up early to start to pack and try a post, only to discover that it went down in the hotel a few minutes after we logged on.
Dean to the rescue. We emailed him some photos and presto – he whipped up a post and figured out where we were.
we went to Danalitoday and took a six hour tour, which is the shortest tour you can take. 3 hours in to mile marker 52, then 3 hours out. It started at 5:30 pm and we got our of the park at 12:00 am. Not exactly our cup of tea, but it is the only way to get into the park beside camping.
This place is special and we will only post a few pics – we did not get to see Mt. Mckinley – the clouds and not too many people get to see it.It is a vast, large park with some spectacular scenery and wildlife.
Tomorrow it is off to Anchorage and hopefully stay there a couple of days. I’ll try and get caught up on ome post…
But enjoy some of Danali:
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Well dang. I’m back for a while. JimmyV reports he could not access the internet at the Fairbanks Super 8. So I’ll continue with two photos he sent to me via iPhone.
This was taken this morning at 1:32AM in Fairbanks. Notice that the sky is still dusk. The “south bound 2” just finished dinner … at least that’s what they tried to tell me. I know better! I know these two miscreants. They were celebrating their successful Dalton Hwy / Deadhorse / Prudhoe Bay ride at either a Fairbanks Disco, a lonely miner’s 99-cents Taxi Dance club, or a sleezy Midnight Sun stripper joint!!
Today JV & BS start traveling carrying their second set of tires. They will keep the knobbies on till they see cord or have no tread then switch to their street tires. JimmyV said, “We got some tips from the Beveryly Hillbillies.”
Where’s the rocking chair??
12:53 PM: The “Southbound 2” departed from the Super-8 and head towards Anchorage.
2:53 PM: The boyz stopped in Healy for the night. They are rushing to unpack and get on a tour of Denali. BS will “OK/Check” the SPOT to finish today’s ride then issue a new OK/Check to start the Danali tour.
At least I think it is day 11.
Our internet has been down all morning here at the hotel.
Dean, AWESOME job covering. When we came back last night and read the post and comments, it was fantastic and great to relive the “drama”. Even sounded better that the ride at times :).
I thing everyone now knows why we call you the Master Stromboli/Grand Pooba(sp?)/Sen say, ect…
Dean filled in all the details and gave great updates, along with being the point man on this part. He had dones the same route just 2 weeks earlier and we learned a lot from him and were well prepared because of the master. He made it easy for us – Way too many thanks Dean! BS and I also decieded to have you just keep doing the blog :).
The days are long here so when we do finaly call it quits, it is late but very light outside, so you end up doing a lot more in the evening – a lot more!
We have to pack up and check out now, and maybe tonight we will post. We plan on stopping in Denali, maybe stay in that area, or keep heading to Anchorage (or maybe head there tonight after seeing Danali?)
As you can see, no plans.
Again, thanks a lot Dean, we would have never been so well prepared if we didn’t have you around to get the advice or find out were to get it.