Had some comments about the Ron's being a lousey name for us, as bikers we needed names to reflect our unsavory characters. I thought about it, and I'm on a two wheeled camper and ron is on a scooter, how bad assed can you be? Then in my email it mentions the "Harley Men" of North Carolina are making a trip to Tennessee to visit our brother Dutch, and I was left of the invitation! Go figure, not a manly name and left of the men's invitation list.
Nice liesurely ride today, north of Fairbanks to check out the pipeline and the country side and then south to Denali where we are camped. Check out the retired pigs and the retired pipeline road train. Couldn't get real close to the road train as they have had record rain this month, yesterday the new record was five time more than ever measured. The funny looking tower holding the pipeline up are refrigeration posts. If not refrigerated, the posts woud warm the permafrost and sink, an un good thing. The pipeline was designed by a Purdue Grad which made Ron jr, a Purdue Engineer and his bride a Purdue Grad happy.
We met a resident that was convinced the rainy weather in Alaska was because the Federal Government was "shifting the jet stream" because of the golf disaster. I also saw this political sign by a governors candidate about Canadians and our natural gas. I just see them and photograh them.
We made it to Denali national Park and found the computer system was down so we had to go to the Riley Creek Campground where there were alot of people trying to make reservations for tours of the park and campgrounds. After I got on a list and waited about 45 minutes I picked up tickets for the 8 hour tour tomorrow (sounds like Gilligans Island). We did pick up a campsite 6 miles south of the park along a river. Kind of neat, to protect our selves from bear we are suppose to put anything you can eat plus deordorants and tooth paste in a hard side vehicle. Don't have one of those available so I'll hang my shaving kit from a tree!
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