This site was created to capture details of our “ride of a lifetime”. My brother and I will be heading to Alaska in late June 2013. Inspired by many things*, we figured it was a cool thing to do as we bookend a milestone birthday. No, we have never gone that far on our motorcycles. We have done three hour rides, and really, this is just a bunch of three hour rides strung together. Approximately 45 three hour rides strung together. We are doing this in three calendar weeks. <\/p>\n
It isn’t about the destination, it’s about the journey as we attempt to reach the goal. It would be nice to see Mt. McKinley, a bunch of wildlife and not meet the people I have seen on “Alaska State Troopers” (really, I don’t want to meet any of them, but given a choice, I’ll take the troopers). We don’t intend to go to Deadhorse nor take our pictures at the Arctic Circle sign.<\/p>\n
You can follow by watching our trip progress on Spotwalla<\/a>. The map will go live June 28th. It will show tracking points from my Spot every 10 minutes (as long as I remember to turn it on).<\/p>\n Inspired by: There are plenty of great ride reports on Alaska by motorcycle. I recommend the “By Way of Motorcycle” series by billma<\/a> and Rick’s Alaska series by ricksandyfox<\/a>.<\/p>\n Back to regularly scheduled pre-trip motorcycle maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This site was created to capture details of our “ride of a lifetime”. My brother and I will be heading to Alaska in late June 2013. Inspired by many things*, we figured it was a cool thing to do as we bookend a milestone birthday. No, we have never gone that far on our motorcycles….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska-trip-2013","category-motorcycles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eskg-y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/milddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenace (Robert M. Pirsig)
\nGhost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road (Neil Peart)
\nRoadshow: Landscape With Drums, A Concert Tour By Motorcycle (Neil Peart)
\nLong Way Round (Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman & Claudio von Planta)
\nLong Way Down (Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman & Claudio von Planta)<\/p>\n