Trip of a Lifetime - Alaska, here we come!
Today, we reached a couple of firsts for the trip – we had the longest day on the trip, in terms of mileage covered, and we also had the hottest day on the trip so far.
After grabbing a coffee/breakfast at the Timmie’s in Drumheller, we headed out towards AB56 and eventually onto the TransCanada Highway (Hwy 1). The scenery and the ride along AB56 was quite nice with lots of colour from the different crop fields – canola, mustard and barley – to keep us all amused. After a brief rest stop in
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Day 30 - Drumheller, AB to Regina, SK
July 13, 2019
Today, we reached a couple of firsts for the trip – we had the longest day on the trip, in terms of mileage covered, and we also had the hottest day on the trip so far.
After grabbing a coffee/breakfast at the Timmie’s in Drumheller, we headed out towards AB56 and eventually onto the TransCanada Highway (Hwy 1). The scenery and the ride along AB56 was quite nice with lots of colour from the different crop fields – canola, mustard and barley – to keep us all amused. After a brief rest stop in
Trochu, we caught the much busier Trans-Canada for the rest of the day.
We made stops at a Timmie’s in Brooks as well as in Moose Jaw and then made the mandatory poker chip stop at the Harley Davidson dealer just outside of Medicine Hat – quite a large dealership – and then for fuel and some lunch at Humpty’s in Swift Current. We rode past enormous cattle pastures, a huge salt mine in Chaplin, a very large potash plant just outside of Regina and gently rolling (maybe I’m being a tad geneorous) countryside into our destination for the night, the Country Inn and Suites in Regina. Before reaching our destination, we did make a stop at Prairie HD in Regina.
Brian Fries came out to meet us for dinner and a drink at the Creekside Pub & Brewery just behind our hotel, and it was good to
finally catch up with him after a number of years of being internet buddies via the various VentureRiders and Harley groups.
For the day, we logged a total of 741 kms, including a trip back into town for dinner, for a total to date on the trip of 15,122 km
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Pre-Trip Stuff
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Planned Trip routing
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Day 1 - St Thomas. ON to St Ignace, MI
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Day 2 - St Ignace, MI to Copper Harbor, MI
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Day 3 - Copper Harbor, MI to Grand Rapids, MN
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Day 4 - Grand Rapids, MN to Minot, ND
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Day 5 - Minot, ND to Malta, MT
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Day 6 - Malta, MT to Choteau, MT
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Day 7 - Choteau, MT to Mossleigh, AB
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Day 8 - Mossleigh, AB to Canmore, AB
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Day 9 - Canmore, AB to Hinton, AB
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Day 10 - Hinton, AB to Dawson Creek, BC
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Day 11 - Dawson Creek, BC to Fort Nelson, BC
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Day 12 - Fort Nelson, BC to Watson Lake, YT
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Day 13 - Watson Lake, YT to Whitehorse, YR
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Day 14 – Whitehorse, YT to Dawson City, YT
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Day 15 – Dawson City, YT to Tok, AK
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Day 16 – Tok, AK to Valdez, AK
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Day 17 – Valdez, AK to Whittier, AK
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Day 18 - Whittier, AK to Homer, AK
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Day 19 – Homer, AK to Bird Creek, AK
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Day 20 – Bird Creek, AK to Palmer, AK
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Day 21 - Palmer, AK to Anderson, AK
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Day 22 - Anderson, AK to Tok, AK
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Day 23 - Tok, AK to Whitehorse, YT
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Day 24 - Whitehorse, YT to Dease Lake, BC
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Day 25 - Dease Lake, BC to New Hazelton, BC
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Day 26 - New Hazelton, BC to Prince George, BC
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Day 27 - Prince George, BC to Entwistle, AB
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Day 28 – Entwistle, AB to Red Deer, AB
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Day 29 – Red Deer, AB to Drumheller, AB
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Day 30 - Drumheller, AB to Regina, SK
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Day 31 - Regina, SK to Steinbach, MB
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Day 32 - Steinbach, MB to Duluth, MN
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Day 33 – Duluth, MN to Sturgeon Bay, WI
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Day 34 – Sturgeon Bay, WI to St Ignace, MI
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Day 35 – St Ignace, MI to St Thomas, ON
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The Final Chapter
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