Jodie & John – RV Adventure Videos
All I could do was laugh as I lay in the middle of the mud-covered road. It was 1973 and this was the Alaska Highway! I’d just been thrown over the handel-bars of my Harley-Davidson and made a nice soft landing in the muck. Before I left Detroit that summer, at the tender age of twenty, I had read all about the highway and heard the stories. People said “your vehicle will self-destruct from all the bumps, the bears will eat you and the mosquitoes will carry you off into the wilderness!” (or was that the other way around?)
I had more than second thoughts. At one point I decided to listen to all the nay-sayers and take the ferry up the inside passage. I was traveling by myself and heading for the coast when I met two other motorcycle riders from Minniesota. They were on their way to the beginning of the highway in Dawson Creek BC. Both of them had extra gas cans, tires, and tools strapped to the sides of their bikes. They had no idea about what they were getting into. We spent that night around the campfire as I tried to talk them into taking the easy way north on the ferry. I didn’t do a very good job, the next morning all three of us were heading for Dawson Creek. I had to go with them, they didn’t even know there were fuel stations at least every 50-miles along the way, they needed my help. This would be one great adventure!
To be continued next Thursday …………
Please email me any questions you might have about RV travel to Alaska, and anywhere else.
You can also see video clips of our three RV Adventure Videos Alaska DVD’s at www.rvadventurevideos.com
Jodie and I will be leading a Born Free Caravan to Alaska July 19th.