This website is not about me and it is definitely not about motorcycles; very little detail about either can be found herein.  That's because it's really about living, about the journey itself.  Yes, it's my journey but the journey could just as well be your journey, internal or external.  I'm not encouraging people to ride motorcycles or travel certain roads or even travel at all... I'm encouraging them to LIVE and to realize that there really is only so much time to do so.  I don't think about dying, I think about living.  My personal belief is most people don't think or act with either in mind.  Why else would people say auto-pilot statements like “where did all the time go”?

I have really only focused this past week on this AK jaunt since I have been busy riding other places.  In fact, I just completed 10,000 miles this past month on the “East Coast 2007” journey on my FJR1300.  For those interested, multi-day reports can be found: HERE.  I left the FJR at my home in TN, flew back here to Phoenix a week ago to pick up my Suzuki V-Strom DL1000 so we could head to the Great White North.  Let me say that snowbirds don't belong in the desert's summer heat... dang, this place is hot!! 

  Ok, so a little about this upcoming journey I'm undertaking.  I'll cover at least 11,000 miles, of which 90% will be done solo and on as many backroads as possible.  The other 10% will be with Kobi (yes, of the 41 Mile Ride Report fame), who will fly into Anchorage, AK the end of July and join me as a passenger down the Cassiar Highway in British Columbia then fly out of Prince Rupert, BC. The routing for the 2,200 mile "2 Chicks, 2 Wheels" part of the journey looks like this:

  As always, photos and Journey Reports will be posted in progress though I don't know how available WiFi connections will be especially since I am planning to do a lot more camping (ahem, someone keep the Matriarch calm between posts!).

I'm ready, the Strom is ready, and it's time to SEIZE THE JOURNEY!!

AGirl