Alaska 2014 - Part 1

[masonjs at nrtco.net]

Nice write up Charles.
 Maybe you could get the old serial movies back.  The ones we (well 
some of us BBTV -born before TV) watched at the local theater Saturday 
afternoon matinées.  These always ended having the hero in some 
desperate predicament like careening off a cliff in a flaming Ford  
just to leave you wondering how he managed to escape and left you an 
entire week to worry about it. Now they had you sucked in and got 
another 15 cents out of you the following Saturday.
 I liked how you ended chapter 1, being trapped in a hotel room in 
Banff Alberta with 2 hill billies from Mogollon New Mexico.

I took my 1970 Triumph in to Don Price.  I'd replaced the plugs and 
cleaned the carb but it still won't idle on both cylinders.  Around 
2500 rpm the 2nd cylinder kicks in and the bike has a nice rush and 
soothing rumble .  I'll let Donny sort it out.  He doesn't look like 
your typical mechanic.  He looks like a gnome.  He's about 5 foot 
nothing with a gray & black curly goatee.  If you put a pointy hat on 
him he'd be the evil twin for the Tavelocity gnome.  His shop is clean 
and orderly, the bikes he's working on are spotless.  There was a nice 
1956 Ariel 500 single Red Hunter awaiting cables and a 1950 Triumph 
speed twin rolling chassis with a newly painted frame and the the 
lower 1/2 of the engine awaiting the side covers and cylinder barrels 
that were out being bored.
The first thing he asked was whether the bike was for sale.  He wanted 
to know as he said he'll be asked that by 95% of the guys coming in 
the shop.

Jim