Day 76 - 6/16/04
Pine River Valley Lodge, YT to Beaver Creek, YT
56 miles
The weather has been great for riding the last few days, warm and with
the wind at my back. I had a fairly easy ride to Beaver Creek, a
town about 20 miles from the border. I'm down to about 320 miles
to go, so the tentative plan is to press it and get to Fairbanks in the
afternoon on Saturday.
At the place I stayed at last night, I met a family from Alaska
(parents and 14 year-old daughter) bicycling together. The father
planned to stop at Whitehorse, while the mother and daughter were going
to take the same route I took all the way to Missoula. They were
very nice, and the ladies are going to have a lot of hills to climb.
Coming into Beaver Creek I met a real nice guy named Arne from Norway,
who looked to be about 50. He's done quite a bit of long-distance
cycling and really seemed to know what he was doing. He has taken
a year off and plans to cycle 3 months each in North America, South
America, Africa and Asia. In North America he plans to take the
same route I took down to Yellowstone, but then he's going to continue
in the mountains and finally end up going to Tucson. That's more
mountains than I could take.
Yet again I have run into someone from a previous day. Today I
needed to have some paperwork notarized and then mailed regarding the
checking account fraud. At the notary's office I saw a guy who
was eating dinner at the place I stayed last night, and then his wife
was running the post office.
