After being on the the famous Alaska Highway for about 350 miles we are getting the feeling that we are heading into the wilderness. The road is not as wild as it used to be. Its a paved/tarmac road for most of the way, it has a lot of damage to it so you never know when the next bend will be a giant hole or have nothing but hardcore left. Every now and again there is a sign pointing you to a point of interest; this particular time we came across an old wooden bridge that was built to follow the curve of the road, a real beautiful piece of engineering with a character reflecting the ingenuity of the builders of roads in this fantastic country.
We spent most of one day trying to get some tires, Taz's back tire had a nail in it and was looking pretty square due to the ridiculously straight roads, so we thought we could get a rear tire till we picked our knoblies up in North Pole Alaska. Could we find any tires in two towns? could we hell, we needed Jim (Taz' dad) the tire scout of Blighty. Unfortunately he was tucked up in bed in Cheshire UK.
We pulled the nail out and thankfully it was tiny and hadn't caused a puncture. We continued on..
Up at 6am tomorrow to see some Grizzly bears on the road.....?!!!!
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If you need some tires sorting and posting just let me know.
in case you don't have the details to hand...
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in fact anything you need bro...
just give me a shout. Always happy to help, you know that.
That's cool man thanks we had sent some tires up to north pole but we didn't count on Taz,s tire wearing so quick. we are in Anchorage now. Unfortunately our tires haven't made it yet they are held up with fedex in New Jersey.. Best laid plans of mice and men hey!
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