THE END

Well...this is the end of our incredible adventure. We have traveled 5293 miles total. I cannot belive it. Lord, thank you so much for your protection, encouragment and the beauty you created for us to see. For bringing us home safely. Thank you to all of our friends and family for your thoughts and prayers and for keeping tabs on us. I wonder what Ron has planned now? Stay tuned for the next adventure......?!!!

MONDAY, THE 27TH

Can you belive it......only 67 miles to Salt Lake City!! I cannot believe how hot it is. We keep pouring water on us under our jackets to act like air conditioners. We smell like wet puppies!! It will be good to be home.

Usally I'm riding in the back, but TODAY!! i'm leading the pack. Ron thinks I am ready to go home.

We got up early in Onterio, Oregon to beat the heat and the traffic as we go through Boise, Idaho. We really got a treat with this sunrise!!

SUNDAY, JULY 26TH

Only 348 miles to go to get to Ontario. We are on our way home. We are noticing a significant weather change. It is getting warmer by the mile.

So guess where we had breakfast in Portland?

SATURDAY, JULY 25TH

Isn't the ocean awesome? We left the land of Twilight and headed down Hwy 101 down the coast on our way to Portland, Oregon. The coastline was inspiring. Some of the trees with the mist was eerily quiet. We finally broke out into sunshine....Yeah!!

FRIDAY, JULY 24TH

So we have now traveled from Bellingham, Washington to Forks, Washington. We have been riding all day and get into town and there are no rooms at the inn. We try every motel and they are all booked. Ever here of the movie and book, Twilight? Evidently all lot of it takes place here and every teenage girl in 15 countries comes here to take pictures....Go figure! By the grace of God we did get a room last minute.

FRIDAY, 24TH OF JULY

So, we get off the ferry inBellingham this morning and drive to Whitby island and here we are....waiting for another ferry to take us to the other side so we can drive to Forks, Washington.
Can you belive all the bikes. At least this ferry only took a half and hour.

Have you ever seen anything so beautiful? This is from the deck of our ferry our last night.

WED AND THURS

My Man...isn't he cute. He loves his coffee!
Here is Ron on the ferry. And look more water. We have now been on the ferry three and a half days. We offboard tommorow in Bellingham, Wahington at 8:00 a.m. Yea!!!

This is our cozy bunk beds on the ferry!! I just love the decor.......This is our room for the next four days!

MONDAY THE 20TH

These are all the bikes strapped down in the hold of the ferry. Mines the last one with the jacket on it. Quite amazing how they figure all this stuff.

We are in line behind the rest of these bikes to load on the ferry. This is 6p.m. Monday night. This will take us four days on the boat and drop us off in Bellingham, Washington.

Ron hiking the Chilkoot trail....(whatever)! In 1897-98 over 30,000 people hiked up the White Pass and Chilkoot trails seeking their fortunes in Yukon, Only half ever made it and very few of those actually found gold. Unbelievable hardships.

SUNDAY, JULY 19TH

Haines Jctn, Canada to Skagway, Alaska

Isn't this beautiful? Looking down into Skagway, Alaska from the top of the mountain we just crossed. Too cool...

The sign says Alaska. We are leaving Alaska, crossing through into Canada today. Tommorow is the big push back into Skagway. We will be there for a day and a half before getting on the ferry. I think Ron was really tired at this point.....but I'm still smiling. Ha, Ha.

This was one of the many lakes we had to drive around. It was ginormous!! We just kept going around and around and around.

So much scenery to see. Miles and miles and miles and miles of it. Lots of trees and mountains.

The North Pole...who would've believed it. Yep, we drove right through the North Pole today. The day was truly beautiful. Great weather. We rode back down to Tok, Alasaka to spend the night and then we will head out to Haines Jctn. tommorow.

We stopped at the Hilltop diner. Sara ate here. Ron was thrilled..This is my new friend! He is one of the stars on "ICE ROAD TRUCKERS" I have no idea what his name is but he was very friendly...!

What can we say??

ALMOST TO THE ARTIC CIRCLE

We finally made it to the Dalton Hwy!!This is the road that goes to the Artic Circle approx. 140 miles from here. The pavement ends and the gravel begins. It was so rough and full of pot holes that it shook the bike to pieces. We decided to stop there and return to Fairbanks and took a nap...so tired!!! I was disappointed for Ron that he didn't get to the Circle, but it was unsafe to go any further. Oh well, he's happy!

This country is so beautiful...but I think we hit the rainy season. Everyday we have been in rain. We went 200 miles today which with road construction, rain and watching for local wildlife is a long ride,and made it to Fairbanks...YEAH!! Tommorow we are going to try to make it up the pipeline road to the Artic Circle. We heard that section of road is really bad for our type of bikes, but we'll see.

This mile marker is 1235 from the begining of the Dawson Hwy which is the begining of the Alaskan Canadian Road. When all is done we have gone 3000 miles. What was I on drugs when I said I would do this?

This is the view in my rear view mirror on the whole trip......(that's Tanna)!!!!

Our first day without rain... We went from Watson Lake to Haines Jct about 387 miles. What a beautiful day! It was a little cool this morning but turned awesome as you can see. Tommorow, North to Alaska!!

SUNDAY, JULY 12TH

What do you know...we made it to the Yukon territory! We are back on schedule (Ron is happy)!
Started out rainy but beautiful when we left Ft. Nelson. On the way we saw moose, caribou, bears, lots of bears....deer, buffalo and wild mountain sheep with big horns. Rode 345 miles and ended up in Lake Watson in the Yukon territory. The mountains were spectacular!!!!

FRIDAY THE 10TH OF JULY

Hi everyone, sorry we haven't blogged for a couple of days, but things have been pretty hairy...

We finally got our bike out of the shop in Calgary at 3:00pm in the afternoon and headed out. We rode 300 miles that day and ended up in a little town called Whitecourt. We passed right on through but had to turn around as we got into one of the worst storms we have ever seen. We were about 2o miles outside of town when it hit. It was pitch black and thunder, lightning and rain so hard it hurt our legs. Couldn't see anything and only by the grace of God and Rons sixth sense did we make it back to town just as a lightning bolt hit right by the motel and blew all the lights out in the city.

SATURDAY, JULY 11TH

We had to make a day and half of riding, so we took off at 6:oo am and rode 720 miles to Ft. Nelson. As we stopped to rest Ron said look at the bear....I said what bear and he said the one right next to your bike!! I'm outa here......catch ya later!

This is the actual guy that worked on Ewen McGregor's bike in the LONG WAY AROUND !!!!!!!!

OUR HERO'S!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ron ordering parts. Our service manager, Bob.....we like Bob! He is our new best friend. What a great guy. He went completly out of his way for us. Actually all of the guys at the BMW shop made us very welcome, went out of there way and were totally awesome. You guys rock.

Here we are at Blackfoot Motorsports in Calgary, Alberta. This is the service entrance. We were the first ones there in the morning to get the bike fixed. Ron did such a good job driving a U-Haul full of motorcycles through rush hour Calgary. My hero!!

Unloading the bike from the tow truck, Ron did such a good job!!!!!!!!

What a day, we changed in our money for Canadian, rode across the border and about an hour in, Ron's bike broke down. He to get a tow truck and loaded his bike on it and truck it into the next town. There we had to get a U-Haul and load both bikes and truck them into Calgary. Then we got to our room and went to check the back of the truck and Ron's bike had tipped over because of all of the oil that was coming out of the final drive. We hope they can fix it tommorow. If not, we may have to change our plans a little.

Canada, just around the corner!

RON'S NEW HELMET

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU !
(doesn't he look like a stormtrooper?)

What a crazy day today was! We left Dillon, Montana this morning and headed north. We had a small mishap with Ron's helmet when it fell off the bike and crashed it to pieces. We stopped in Butte and found a place where we bought him a new one. Ron is happy! They had a Starbucks down the street, Tanna is happy. After our coffee break we hit it hard and just after Helena we got into some pretty extreme weather. I have never riden in such torrential rain and 65 mile and hour winds. The Lord was watching over us for sure. We had bad weather the rest of the day. We are now in Conrad , Mt. for the night. One hour to the Canadian border. Onward tommorow!!

WE FINALLY MADE IT TO MONTANA!!! YEAH!!! WE ARE STILL SMILING... NOW I KNOW WHAT THE WIND WAS BLOWING IN, IT WAS THE BIG DARK RAINSTORM BEHIND US........?!!?!! how's my hair??

ONE THING YOU CAN COUNT ON IN IDAHO IS FINE HOTELS AND WIND!!!! THIS IS ON OLD MAIN STREET IN DUBOIS, IDAHO.

Hey everyone,
Here we go....we are off and running!!! Why am I standing here in 100 degree heat with my jacket on? Because Ron said he wanted this stupid picture. Today we are heading to my sister's house in Pocatello to stay the night and then we are off to Montana. Talk to you tommorow.

HI EVERYONE!

WE ARE GETTING READY TODAY ...PACKING AND UNPACKING AND PACKING AGAIN! SUNDAY IS THE BIG DAY FOR US. OFF IN THE SUNSET

Caleb is very distraught as well............

Woody is very upset we are leaving.....!