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I started my day off in Hyder, AK at the bear viewing boardwalk.  It is a little creek and pond where bears, black and grizzly come to feast on salmon, and tourists with ginourmous lenses wait to take pictures from a boardwalk.  After about an hour I had only seen a bear way in the [...]

[Dear readers, I thought this update had gone through, but it turns out it didn't.  So here it is anyway, 5 days late.] A quick update to say that after 14 days on the bike, with the last week being particularly rough with a doubly whammy of stomach illness and awful headwinds, I’m taking a [...]

Hey guys…Karen here again. Before Matt’s big trip I wasn’t  one to answer my cell phone when I didn’t recognise the phone number. This summer I quickly learned that I really do need to answer it because most likely it is Matt calling from the middle of nowhere letting me know he’s alive. The second [...]

Hello everyone! This is Matt’s sister Karen. Matt called me last night (Monday August 10th) to let me know that he is 20 miles west of Watson Lake at the intersection of Highway 1 and Highway 37. Instead of taking the Alaska Highway to Dawson Creek he will be taking Cassiar Highway south to Yellowhead [...]

I’ve thought about writing a post that would tell you about all the connections of some of the people and places on this trip so far.  A few would be about cyclists that I’ve run into a few times, others would be about people we met along the way that recalled meeting cyclists I’d heard [...]

In an interesting turn of events after my last update, we ended up staying in Whitehorse on Tuesday to help out at the bakery run by our host we found through couchsurfing.org.  A great place with amazing food and people! We liked it so much we’re staying another day, and will probably get going again Thursday [...]