As many of you know, we’ve put this trip on hold because of a series of family traumas. For a while it looked as though we were going to have to delay another year because in October 2012 I stepped into a hole, fell and broke my ankle which has been taking a long time to heal. However, today my doctor said come back to see him in October 2013 and gave me some recommendations on what to do to continue improving. He was ok with our plan as long as I followed his recommendations – which I will.
So with that – we are on track and plan to leave Florida in mid-April with stops in Indiana and Iowa to see relatives and be at the Canada/Montana border to start biking in May.
The rough plan – bike north from the Canada/Montana border(where Chuck left off in 2007) to Swift Current, on to Edmonton, Dawson Creek, Whitehorse, then into Alaska to Fairbanks and on to Prudhoe Bay. There is a good chance that at some point we will “flip-flop” – leaving the trail in Canada driving to Alaska and completing the part between Fairbanks and Prudhoe Bay then working backward to complete other sections. Why? Because there is a very small window where the mosquitos in Alaska are not at their worst and it’s right after the thaw and before it gets warm.
On the website you can follow the blog as we make our way north. Once we start the bike trip we will keep an online journal on this site.
Our thanks to Michael Owens, Technology Consultant and friend, for setting up this website for us.