Day 7

Packed up early in the rain this morning.  But we were on the road by 9:30am, early for us.  A bit chilly and the rain was lifting to cloudy skies.  The entire road was full of potholes and frost heaves, very challenging riding compared to previous days.  I commented to Kurt over coffee that I was surprised to not see one single solo female rider yet.  Many two up, but none on her bike.  Next thing you know we are stopped at a construction zone waiting for a pilot car and there are two Honda Trans Alps in front of us from Germany and one of them is a women!  Frank and Simone are traveling on their MCs for the next 2 years.  They were just finishing up 3 months in Canada.  Best quote of the trip so far came from Frank.  "I only know of one other woman that rides your bike (my KTM 990) and she used to be a man!"  Kurt quickly assured him I was NEVER a man!.  We came across them several more times during the day which is inevitable when traveling in the same direction.  I believe we will run into them again before we leave Alaska.  We arrived at Leonie's house in Fairbanks in time for a scrumptious dinner of Alaskan King Crab legs and garlic Bread.  Kurt was in heaven.  We also celebrated with a great Teldeschi Zin by Ravenswood (a must try if you ever see one in the store) and a bottle of Silver Oak that Kurt got me as a celebration wine for making it to Alaska.  Needless to say we nursed a bit of a head ache the next day since we were not able to pass on all that good wine.  I got my dog fix with Charlie, her adorable golden retriever.  Tomorrow we are taking the day off!  Just starting to look like twilight at 11:00pm.