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<\/a><\/p>\nFirst up was Skagway, once we got to Whitehorse I check the Alaska ferry schedule. \u00a0Which is an absolute mess to figure out if there is or isn’t a ferry leaving on the day you want or not. \u00a0From what I could tell it didn’t look like there was any for the day we would be there that were heading to Haines. \u00a0So we just planned on running down there staying the night and riding back up toward Whitehorse then heading toward Watson Lake. \u00a0We started out of Whitehorse down toward Skagway, it’s such great road with all kinds of things to see.<\/p>\n
Once in Skagway there are some really cute things to see in the town, it’s one of the main stops for the cruise ships, so they’ve built up the shops down by the docks. We cruise up and down the streets looking for a small campground we could stay at, we found one close to the narrow gauge train but didn’t really like the feel of the place. \u00a0As Jaime put it, the place had that back woods, deliverance feel to it. \u00a0So we looked up other campgrounds in the area, to find that only other one was about 10 miles from\u00a0town. \u00a0In a different direction than we’d come into town, what the heck how bad could it be? \u00a0 \u00a0As it turned out, it was an awesome park on the other side of the mountains from where we were in Dyea, which was a former gold rush town like was\u00a0Skagway, Dyea is\u00a0located at the head of the Chilkoot trail. Not to mention there was about 7 \u00a0miles super scenic dirt road on the way to the campgrounds.<\/p>\n We found a trail to this beach through some trees, can you imagine having this as a place where you could go when ever you wanted to have a fire? \u00a0Wow!<\/p>\n I wondered around in the tidal pools for awhile looking at all the shells and seaweed, it reminded me of when I was a kid about 8 or 9 yo and my dad and I would go fishing in Homer or Seward and he’d sit at camper while I played in the flats at low tide.\u00a0 The pull outs above Skagway gave great views of the cruise ships and the town.\u00a0 Once we got into town we decided to swing by the store to pick up some lunch for later, while Jaime was in the store I spotted a few other bikes. \u00a0I went over to talk with them to find out where they were from and find out where they were heading. \u00a0I’m really happy I did that too. \u00a0Turns out they were just killing time waiting for their ferry ride to Haines and as luck would have it one of the guys\u00a0had a spare ticket that he gave me. \u00a0He and I headed over to the Ferry office, he transferred the ticket to my name. \u00a0I bought Jaime a standby ticket since the Ferry was sold out. \u00a0We waited on the docks with them and a group of Germans. \u00a0 \u00a0My bike was #13 so Jaime’s made it an even 14. \u00a0As the deckhand said, in 19 years, she’d never left a bike behind on the docks. \u00a0So we were on our way to Haines. What luck!<\/p>\n We hit Haines at about 8 pm, and we rode until we hit\u00a0Whitehorse just before midnight. There wasn’t much picture taking at this point. \u00a0We were just trying to beat it so we could make some time up after spending most of two days around Skagway. \u00a0We needed to head to Prince George to pick up Jaime’s replacement phone. \u00a0 The ADV inmate we had stayed with there was kind enough to allow the replacement phone to be shipped to him there, since there wasn’t anywhere else that we could find in Canada that would accept shipment or that Verizon would ship to.<\/p>\n There was still one more side trip that we really wanted to to do before we hit Prince George. \u00a0 We really wanted to take the run down the road to Telegraph Creek, after hearing about it from another ADV inmate. \u00a0Not to mention I figured that Jaime really needed to see the Sign post Forrest in Watson Lake while we were in the area. \u00a0 Once we had finished wandering around the “Forrest” we stopped for yet another bacon cheeseburger. \u00a0I know that I haven’t mentioned it but bacon cheeseburgers were pretty much our go to meal on this trip if we weren’t cooking it ourselves. \u00a0There wasn’t much salad eating on this trip, and shockingly we both lost weight. \u00a0 After we finished eating we booked it down the Cassier toward Dease Lake which is where the turn off to Telegraph Creek is. \u00a0We found a really cute lil campground overlooking the lake for the night right next to a restored classic truck that Jaime just about lost it over… I of course can’t remember what \u00a0it was, beside it being an old restored truck that looked really cool.\u00a0 The road to Telegraph Creek delivered! \u00a0It was amazing, easy to ride, yet it was a challenge too. \u00a0I don’t ever recall seeing road signs before this that said 20% grades. \u00a0Not to mention the switchbacks with loose gravel, but they weren’t that bad even with the fully loaded big bikes. \u00a0Now you’ll notice there aren’t pictures of this… that’s because I had to give it my full attention on the way up and down. \u00a0I’m hoping that Jaime still has the video of us riding up it. \u00a0Damn, it was fun! \u00a0The river was stunning, it was also the first time since I was like 7 I’d gotten to see salmon jumping out of the water. \u00a0Talk about cool.<\/p>\n The church that we came across right after having lunch which was….<\/p>\n you guessed it… yet another bacon cheeseburger.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now I did learn one thing on the way down this road… Karma is a fickle lil witch. \u00a0We’d stopped to take some of these pictures. \u00a0The road wasn’t exactly level, and it was slanted down away from us, so getting the bikes off the side stands was a lil tricky at times. \u00a0Jaime was having trouble one of the times and I was laughing at her.. Yeah, I know, my bad. \u00a0But, I went to get off the bike to help her out. \u00a0I didn’t quite get the side stand back down on mine, the bike rolled off and the bike and I both went over. \u00a0I was still laughing when I stopped rolling right under Jaime’s bike. \u00a0Ya know I still think it’s funny! \u00a0Even if I broke my clutch lever.<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n