The mosquitoes this morning were horrendous! On the upside (that's me being Polyanish), this provided us an excellent opportunity to test out our new mosquito head nets. Let me tell you that they worked admirably, but we still made a hasty retreat to escape the hungry little buggers. For the first time we left w/o coffee by 6:00 am!
We quickly packed our stuff and headed down the road to find a Tim Hortons, where had coffee and the promise of Internet access. However this was a broken promise, as their system did not play nice with Google. Giving up, we moved on down the road.
This was our first really good day from a temperature perspective as it was mostly in the mid to high 70's. Cool enough to be comfortable to ride with a coat on, but not so hot as to be uncomfortable.
What can I say about today? More spectacular lakes. More spectacular rivers. More spectacular scenery. Just more YAFRS and YAFRL (Yet Another Fabulous River and Yet Another Fabulous Lake, respectively). One can't take pictures of them all.
We did actualize some wildlife sightings today though:
1 bear, color brown, possibly small grizzly
3 moose: two cows + one calf
1 coyote
3 bald eagles, male
1 deer sans antlers
Things to ponder:
Do birds everywhere start making noise at 4:30am?
Why do I always thing of something to add after posting?
One more thing. We are now at the official beginning of the Alaska Highway:
At 10:15 it is still twilight, and now time to hit the sack.
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