The Adventure Continues

Yesterday, Dom aka Charlie6 from redlegsrides.blogspot.com, took his Ural down to Jon at Frozen Motorworks for installation or warranty replacement engine parts. This morning, he carefully packed his rig to continue on his Alaskan adventure in really marginal weather. At least he opted to head south to Los Anchorage rather than north to the land with no cell service.

Bridget came out to the garage and asked me how I managed to ride down to California last year without all the carrying capacity of a sidecar rig. There are truly a lot of spares, tools and supplies fitted into the sidecar.

 

Of course everyone had to get a turn trying out the drivers seat as who knows when the opportunity might arrise. It'll be a while before he can reach the pedals or even the handle bars.

 

Even Bridget took a turn trying it out for size. She mentioned that maybe with this she'd be able to pass the motorcycle test since she didn't need to touch the ground nor lean. Dom took a family photo with most of the family around his rig (including the two noisy dogs) and Bridget said that it was kind of sad and felt like a family member was getting ready to leave.

All good things must come to an end. Dom is getting ready to take off after showing off one of the biggest selling features of a Ural, i.e. reverse. The temperature was still feeling very cold and wet. Last time I looked at his Spot tracker, he had made it past Cantwell and was well into Denali State Park. Hopefully, the clouds will clear a bit to get some good photos. He commented that there was nothing really scenic in Fairbanks, or at least no mountains where he could pose Valencia. The pile of ice from the driveway doesn't really qualify and I now have a second opinion when I say that there isn't much to photograph around Fairbanks.

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