I am the type of person that waits patiently for the opportunity to initiate Plan B. I guess it’s something in my chemical make up. Don’t get me wrong, I love it when a plan comes together – the original plan – but somehow, when things go sideways I get excited. Our MotoQuest tours are […]
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While our MotoQuest fleet is making its way from Anchorage, Alaska to Long Beach, CA, I find myself back in my small Alaskan town staring out into the midnight sun and plotting the next adventure. I’ve got two end-of-year escapes in mind. Th first is our Patagonia End of the Earth Adventure. I keep thinking, people
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We traveled down the east side of the continental divide a short way and came to rest area dedicated to Sacajawea. There, clustered in the pine trees, were a bathroom, a couple of fire pits and picnic tables and place where a small spring trickled down the slope. This was the start of the Missouri
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PART 1 September 24th Maupin to Joseph Oregon: As I write this, the Deschutes river calmly roles by before daybreak. A faint and constant rush of water interrupts the silence, only to be broken by an occasional chirp of a bird, passing car or fall of a crab apple on a wooden deck. We are
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Our bikes might make 240 miles… but, they might not. “Jethro,” the follow truck, will gas us all up at the half way mark, Atigun Pass. Coldfoot, in the old days a gold camp, is now a truck stop, with modular rooms for paying visitors, and a 24 hour restaurant, 60 miles north of the
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August 19th, Late Night, New Delhi Most of the group arrived very late in the night in New Delhi from all over the world. Rummy and exhausted, we went to our hotel, close to the airport. We all had a long layover there, and we opted to try to get some restful sleep before our
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Alaska’s Outback In search of Alaska’s Best Unknown Destinations Story by Lee Klancher Motorcycle Escape Magazine Fall 2006 “There’s no law north of the Yukon River, and no God north of the Arctic Circle.” -Alaskan saying At the Seaview Bar in Hope, Alaska (pop. 137), my buddy Peter Peil and I were enjoying an
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Above: The Denali Highway. The Denali Highway is a 115 mile long graded dirt road that runs between Paxon, on the Richardson Highway on the east, and Cantwell, on the Parks Highway on the west. We started our ride from the Tangle Lakes Lodge, our hotel stopping point, 20 miles along the Denali Highway from
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Hokkaido is the northern most island of Japan and features 20 percent of the country’s land mass with 5 percent of the population. Host to the largest national parks in Japan, this country is riddled with wild rivers, salmon runs, brown bears and a multitude of other wild critters. Untamed forests abound in this not
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Patagonia 2011 A Different Kind of Fun The group started arriving on Thursday and as I got off the plane, I noticed the tell tale riding jackets of motoadventurists. It was Jim and Nicole, fresh from Seattle and newly wed and ready for action! We caught up with Joanna, the fire plug from Poland and
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