Talkeetna

Talkeetna is a small town 160ish miles North of Anchorage, it has an interesting mix of climbers, prospector history and travelers. As we arrived there was musicians playing guitars in the town square, huskies and their owners sipping beer and looking all chilled out lime only alaskan can. If you want to get out of the rat race this is the place to do it. Even with the tourist here it still feels totally chilled. It even has its own brewery here, to keep you warm in the 19 hours of dark they have in the winter.
As you approach the town there is a float plane tour company and I managed to talk Taz into a flight, heheheh if you have seen the helicopter footage you will ubderstand, although there was a lot of clouds we did glimpse of Denali " Mckinley" the biggest mountain in North America: 20322 feet. We landed on a lake with a hunters cabin, perched by the waters edge. As soon as we got out of the plane the Mosquitos attacked. No deet! we got eaten! The cabin was all shut down complete with nails protruding from the walls and doors to discourage the beers attemting to brake in, still the claw marks on the walls reminds us that we are not at the top of the food chain here.

We are staying here a few days to recharge our batteries before we push on to Fairbanks to get some tires for my bike, before we hit the Dalton Highway. We have had lot of help from the guys on ADVrider forum and I recommend them if you are riding here, these guys know their stuff.

Its father day today, so we rang our fathers to send our love but my thoughts all day are with my children who I miss so much Cameron and Sadie. Love you guys.