Being as it’s the fourth largest country and has the most extensive road network in the world, motorcycle touring in the USA should be at the top of your riding wish list. From sea to shining sea, whether you’re a fan of the big open road or tight, gravel mountain track, the States will have…

After our run up to Prudhoe Bay we had a couple of extra days around Fairbanks to service our bikes and catch up on errands. Not real exciting but these kinds of days are pretty rare on a schedule so we made the most of them. The reason we had a bit of time up…

Read more about riding Alaska’s Dalton Highway >> Riding Alaska’s Dalton Highway up into the Arctic has always been a goal of mine for some reason. I’m not sure why but I guess it has to do with the remoteness of the place and it being one of the farthest places away from home. That’s one…

Our experience in Denali National Park and the Denali Highway in 2011 … Heading north from the Kenai, we bypassed Anchorage (we’d heard it was just a big town which not much to see) and motored straight up the Parks Hwy to McKinley Park, passing the huge Mt Mckinley off to our left. It wasn’t…

Our experience riding Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula in 2011 … Well, even though it seemed it would never happen, we did finally make it ashore in Alaska at Whittier. Quickly realising that there was absolutely nothing in this town to keep us there we jumped on the bikes to head to Seward. What we didn’t realise…

After hanging out with my family in Chilliwack it was time for us to start the first part of our journey proper – the ferry up the Inside Passage from Bellingham (just over the U.S. border from Vancouver) up to Whittier (just south of Anchorage) We headed out with plenty of time spare as we…

Our experience taking our motorcycles on the Inside Passage Ferry to Anchorage in 2011 … MV Kennicott is the pride of the Alaskan Marine Highway fleet and we joined 185 people heading up on the six day journey up the coast to Alaska from Bellingham. The car deck was packed with shipping containers on trailers,…

Here is a rundown of our ride planning for Alaska and Canada … A new year is upon us and the days are already going by too fast, so it’s time we got our act together and started to solidify our itinerary. After the usual trawling through ADVRider, Horizons Unlimited, the Mile Post, along with a few…