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murphybrown
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Need your email...
Please send me your email and I will send you the link to my SPOT tracker...
Please send me your email and I will send you the link to my SPOT tracker...
jaherbst
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Jack, it is a 1290 Super Adventure. Runs great, rides like a cloud, fast as a Superbike! See cycle world's write up. I ordered it last November for this trip. We are just getting to know each other......
Grrreat! Enjoy the trip.
Jack
cognaccruiser
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Gas in Meziadin Junction
Nice to see there is gas there now. Did you happen to find out when it was added. There was none there 3 years ago but things come and go.
Interested to know what people think about Tatogga Lodge? Do they still have all the stuffed animals?
Gary
Nice to see there is gas there now. Did you happen to find out when it was added. There was none there 3 years ago but things come and go.
Interested to know what people think about Tatogga Lodge? Do they still have all the stuffed animals?
Gary
SpyderAnn01
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Gary, the gas stop has a restaurant also but I have no idea how long they've been there. Tatogga Lake is nice, they have a new motel with 10 or so rooms and they still have primitive cabins. It is a family affair and they are planning on staying open this winter. They have work crews staying here and they feed them first then the rest of us got to eat. They let us use their laundry facilities for free too.
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cognaccruiser
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jaherbst
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Gary, the gas stop has a restaurant also but I have no idea how long they've been there. Tatogga Lake is nice, they have a new motel with 10 or so rooms and they still have primitive cabins. It is a family affair and they are planning on staying open this winter. They have work crews staying here and they feed them first then the rest of us got to eat. They let us use their laundry facilities for free too.
Is that your new cuddle puppy Ann?
Jack
The Stewart Cassiar Highway is great. Glad you went that route. Now you're off to Teslin. Stayed there, too, at the Yukon Motel. Nice restaurant and nice campground if any of your group is into camping. Enjoy.
PrairieSpyder
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Here's some pictures from today. That's Cathy and Les Klingen with the bear at the Tatogga Lake Resort, near Iskut, BC.
If you have a bear in the line for the toilet, you should definitely let him go in first! The sign was on the bathroom at one of our fuel stops.
If you have a bear in the line for the toilet, you should definitely let him go in first! The sign was on the bathroom at one of our fuel stops.
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Bob Denman
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ARtraveler
R.I.P. Dwayne
This is our upcoming forecast. I would say its the "usual" after going through the best three weeks of summer we have had since 2001. The % chance of rain has gone down since last night for our Tue/Wed rides with the NTA group. Thur/Fri still remains to be seen. Although no one likes rain, it is much needed here to put a damper on many of the fires that are burning everywhere in the state.
murphybrown
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As I have seen the past 2 days...
Good Evening:
Well this will be the report of the Great, the Good, the Bad and the Are You Kidding Me!!!
Great for last two days...is first and foremost this group of merry travelers...amazing group of people with awesome positive attitudes. 2d our Spyders are all running like champions. 3rd we stayed Tuesday night at Burns Lake, BC..Sunshine motel..just a typical motel not much to report on that. But Weds. night we were at Tatooga Lake Resort...this is a fishing camp as well as they feed work crews..for the past weeks the crew has been those that are building a camp back in the mountains for gold mine exploration. They are helicopter to the resort...fed great home cooking and flown back to work. Most of us got to stay in the "new" finish "motel" wing...really very nice motel rooms. Then there is the cabin that Fred stayed in...price was great $30 and for that he got a bed with clean bedding...yep that is all.....BUT he was on the lake and what more does a guy need than a cabin in the woods on a lake and a front porch...sure didn't need to outhouse!!! A wonderful rustic place.
Another Great is the scenery....Roger keeps saying "oh this is nothing" just you wait!!
the Good: weather has been mostly good...enough rain and dropping temps to have us welcoming the warmth of our little motel (8 rooms and we have them all!!!)..the roads are mostly ok..where not seems always marked..if you are looking for the "slow" (i.e. dip ahead) down sign kinda buried on side of road.
the Bad: Not so good on seeing wild animals. One of our passenger wives has seen 2 black bear... several eagles ...the rest of us...not even a mouse...some road kill, but nothing worth scraping up and having for dinner.
R U kidding: Well the first one is on me...Weds. a.m. I set alarm (never, truly never, in my life have I even had to have alarm go off...) well not on Weds. my roomie wakes me and says your alarm went off 1/2 hour ago. Yep, didn't know I could move that fast...shower, packed, and ready to roll in 20 minutes.
#2...all gas has to be prepaid before you can pump AND US credit cards will not operate the outside pumps...
#3...no cell service for verizon or t mobile since entering BC paid them an extra $15 oh well. I still remember some smoke signals from back in the day
Final: batteries died on my SPOT tracker 1/2 to Teslin. Fresh ones aaaa not in easy range. So folks I know where I am. If that helps!!!
Tonight is a just rest/relax...instead of our usual 6:30 a.m. depart...it will be a leisurely 9 a.m. depart...only have about 110 miles to travel tomorrow (Whitehorse Yukon area)...we have been traveling about 350-380 miles a day..
Yep this is a mighty fine way to travel North to Alaska..
Until next time,
Karyl/murphybrown
Good Evening:
Well this will be the report of the Great, the Good, the Bad and the Are You Kidding Me!!!
Great for last two days...is first and foremost this group of merry travelers...amazing group of people with awesome positive attitudes. 2d our Spyders are all running like champions. 3rd we stayed Tuesday night at Burns Lake, BC..Sunshine motel..just a typical motel not much to report on that. But Weds. night we were at Tatooga Lake Resort...this is a fishing camp as well as they feed work crews..for the past weeks the crew has been those that are building a camp back in the mountains for gold mine exploration. They are helicopter to the resort...fed great home cooking and flown back to work. Most of us got to stay in the "new" finish "motel" wing...really very nice motel rooms. Then there is the cabin that Fred stayed in...price was great $30 and for that he got a bed with clean bedding...yep that is all.....BUT he was on the lake and what more does a guy need than a cabin in the woods on a lake and a front porch...sure didn't need to outhouse!!! A wonderful rustic place.
Another Great is the scenery....Roger keeps saying "oh this is nothing" just you wait!!
the Good: weather has been mostly good...enough rain and dropping temps to have us welcoming the warmth of our little motel (8 rooms and we have them all!!!)..the roads are mostly ok..where not seems always marked..if you are looking for the "slow" (i.e. dip ahead) down sign kinda buried on side of road.
the Bad: Not so good on seeing wild animals. One of our passenger wives has seen 2 black bear... several eagles ...the rest of us...not even a mouse...some road kill, but nothing worth scraping up and having for dinner.
R U kidding: Well the first one is on me...Weds. a.m. I set alarm (never, truly never, in my life have I even had to have alarm go off...) well not on Weds. my roomie wakes me and says your alarm went off 1/2 hour ago. Yep, didn't know I could move that fast...shower, packed, and ready to roll in 20 minutes.
#2...all gas has to be prepaid before you can pump AND US credit cards will not operate the outside pumps...
#3...no cell service for verizon or t mobile since entering BC paid them an extra $15 oh well. I still remember some smoke signals from back in the day
Final: batteries died on my SPOT tracker 1/2 to Teslin. Fresh ones aaaa not in easy range. So folks I know where I am. If that helps!!!
Tonight is a just rest/relax...instead of our usual 6:30 a.m. depart...it will be a leisurely 9 a.m. depart...only have about 110 miles to travel tomorrow (Whitehorse Yukon area)...we have been traveling about 350-380 miles a day..
Yep this is a mighty fine way to travel North to Alaska..
Until next time,
Karyl/murphybrown
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NautiBrit
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Karyl can sure organize a trip
Today we headed to Skagway and would you believe that after organizing our itinerary to perfection, Karyl also had the time to organise a parade for us down Main Street. To top it off, we arrived a little late, so after the parade went north on Main, they turned around and did it again going south, so that we wouldn't miss a thing. On top of that, the weather gods were with us and there was no rain.
Today we headed to Skagway and would you believe that after organizing our itinerary to perfection, Karyl also had the time to organise a parade for us down Main Street. To top it off, we arrived a little late, so after the parade went north on Main, they turned around and did it again going south, so that we wouldn't miss a thing. On top of that, the weather gods were with us and there was no rain.
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SpyderAnn01
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I even got to ride in the parade! We met a Soyder rider after the parade, he was from Whitehorse and I don't think he was too happy to see us there, he liked to be only Spyder around. On our way back to Muktuk we stopped in Whitehorse and saw a 2008 GS in McDonalds parking lot. We also saw an RS heading south and a wonan on an ST also heading south.The scenery was beautiful today and we even saw a black bear along the highway. These are pictures from Emerald Lake.
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ARtraveler
R.I.P. Dwayne
Emerald Lake is a beauty and lives up to its name. :yes:
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