Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Day 18 Slums of Whitehorse to Watson Lake

Today started out really cold.  It was only about 40 degrees and I was cold.  I wasn’t going to hook up my electrics because the sun was shining and I thought all would be toasty!  Boy was I wrong.  I had the electrics running the whole time we were on the motorcycles. 

Ran into a lot of construction today just like all over the far north.  They can only work on the roads in the summer time so when the snow is gone, they attack road construction with great gusto! 

Because it was so cold, my motorcycle was missing pretty bad for about 50 miles.  The missing problem seems to be tied to the outside air temperature somehow.  The colder it is, the longer my engine misses.  Once it quits missing, it runs fine the rest of the day.  I’m afraid a real fix for this problem will have to wait until I get the bike home and have it in the garage to work on it.  If the “Master BMW Mechanic” of Anchorage couldn’t fix the problem then I should have a little more time to fix it.  Then I will claim the prize of “Master BMW Mechanic of Anchorage” myself. 

We arrived at Watson Lake just in time to claim the last room at the hotel. Several people came in wanting rooms after we got the last room.  There are a lot of tourists running around northern Canada and Alaska at this time of year. 

Thanks to me again, we got a late start leaving Watson Lake the next morning.  But, that isn’t unusual for me.  I’m always the last one ready to go somewhere.  I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking!

It’s on to Pink Mountain tomorrow. 

2 comments:

  1. Sorry it was so cold and you were uncomfortable... it was 96 here today, and about 95 percent. Trade ya for a day or two.

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  2. Actually, we're heading towards it and Lyle won't be able to handle it. He's managed with a full face helmet up to now only because the weather had been so cool up here. If it were that hot up here in Canada, with their helmet laws, he would be a puddle in the road!

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