Alaska or bust!

Mon Aug 4 09:18:51 PDT 2014

>
> 1. We used to have speed limits of 70, 60 on major highways.  This 
> changed with the gas crisis and introduction of the metric system in 
> the late 1970s.  The power that be thought they were fooling us when 
> we were told we could drive 80, & 90 kph.
2. No.  The low speed limit signs are perceived as a challenge. We 
want to feel like criminals and the police can't be bothered stopped 
anyone running 15 km over the posted limit   Not like riding through 
the Aderondacks and being flashed by a state trooper's roof rack while 
doing 57 mph in a 55. Go to Quebec where the speed limit and drinking 
age are merely a suggestion.
3.I thought it was more like 10% if you're on a bike.
4. I don't know why, but have also wondered that.
5. Frost heaves and lack of maintenance--ride in New England back 
roads--same feeling in your forearms..
6. Sold Ruby in 2008.  Can't remember what I had for breakfast let 
alone what happened over 1/2 a decade ago.
7. I've made more that one stop in the US of A in the bush.  You don't 
want to have this plight on the prairies.  You have to run until 
you're hidden by the curvature of the earth by that time you've loaded 
you pants..
8.90s??? Hell try the 70's.  Most of these rest stops had fuel, 
lodging and a restaurant that was licensed to sell alcoholic beverages 
(their main source of income.  When the drinking and driving laws were 
stiffened up and enforced these stops weren't very profitable.  Most 
were sold to the underwriters after the mysterious fire because they 
couldn't figure out how to start a flood.
9. I've wonder the same thing the farther south I go in the USA.  The 
is the reason the "Tooth" brush was in vented in Arkansas--Any other 
place it would have been a TEETH brush.
10. I don't know.  I don't drink this coffee.  I have Crones disease 
see last sentence #7.

That's best I can do with the time and money allotted.

Glad you had a good trip.

Jim
>
>
> A few observations, rants and questions:
>
> 1. Why are the speed limits so slow in Canada?
> 2. Does anyone actually go the speed limit in Canada? Every time I 
> rode
> anywhere near the speed limits I'd get passed like I was standing 
> still. By
> cars, motor homes, and by the hordes of BMW GS's. Several locals 
> laughed
> and said everyone ignores the speed limits.
> 3. If there is a 40% or greater chance of rain, it will.
> 4. Why does it stop raining when you put on your rain gear, but start 
> when
> you take it off?
> 5. Why are there large patches of dirt roads in the Yukon? You're 
> cruising
> blissfully along at 70 on decent asphalt when suddenly the pavement 
> turns
> to mud/gravel/dirt? 100 yards later it's pavement again? The last 100 
> miles
> before the Alaska border is 40% dirt! I almost went down several times 
> and
> I think my forearms took a worse beating than when I go dirt biking.
> 6. Anyone else notice that when you hit a puddle of water, the the GPZ
> efficiently directs that water right onto the top of your riding boots
> soaking your feet?
> 7. Canada is extremely efficient in the placement of rest stops with
> restrooms, placing them seemingly every 2 kilometers. Unless, you 
> really
> really have to go, then the next one is 32 kilometers. Don't ask me 
> how I
> know this.
> 8. Why are there lots of shiny new government placed road signs 
> informing
> you that "Bob's Gas, Grub, and Lodging" is just two kilometers ahead 
> but
> then you get there it's clear "Bob" must have died in the 90's and the
> place has been closed for years? This seems to most often happen when 
> you
> are running on reserve and praying for a gas station to magically 
> appear.
> 9. Why is it the farther north you ride, the fewer teeth the 
> population
> have?
> 10. Along both 37 North and the Alaska highway, it seems every store, 
> gas
> station, lodge, etc, has a pot of coffee going, many times giving it 
> away
> free. I'm not a coffee lover, but was grateful for a hot cup many 
> times
> when I was tired, cold and wet. My eternal thanks to these hardy
> individuals.
>
> Charles S. and his tired GPZ 1100
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