Day 16 - Palmer, AK to Tok, AK

Greetings from the RV park office laundry room in Beaver Creek, Yukon!

There is limited internet availability and no cell phone coverage.

We got to Tok today and decided to keep riding. Tomorrow was planned to be about a 400 mile day and we knew we were going to head into road junk. So we decided to ride an extra hundred or so miles today so that tomorrow becomes a shorter day. We're still planning on ending up in Whitehorse tomorrow.

The day was pretty uneventful but with the extra miles it was a bit long. However, we're staying at the place we stayed coming in so the familiarity helps a bit.

The roads between Palmer and Glennallen remind me of California some. It was a lot of narrow two-lane highway that was somewhat curvy going through foothills and following a river.

Outside of Anchorage is a glacier that you can go to if you want to be up close and personal with a glacier. We took a picture of it from the highway. (to be posted when we get better access)

We did hit a spot of rain today. Only a few minutes worth but it was dumping quite a lot. Don kept riding through it. His riding gear is all-in-one and rainproof. Walt and I stopped to get rain gear on. Rain gear does not go on nicely when you are already wet! Everything sticks and I was in a hurry so I didn't get all of the snaps, covers, and such in right! We had just enough rain to wash the bugs from the windshield and face screen on the helmet. I took it all off about 30 minutes later.

We stopped leaving Alaska to get a picture of "You are now entering Alaska". We didn't get it going in!

Each place we stop we seem to talk to people who have been driving in rain for the last 7 days. Our weather seems to be the best we could hope for.

Tomorrow is road construction and on to Whitehorse. Hope it is no worse then when we came in!