The best of this week ...

Hi folks,

We are already in BC with not many Km ahead to finish the Alaska Highway more than 40 days on the road, tough work but everything is worth it when you can see and enjoy places like that. It is called the Liard Hot Springs. When you arrive in a place like that to put into word what you see and what you feel is difficult for someone that is not a good writer, the closest we can do it is with those images.The water drips from a white rock reaching temperatures higher than 50C and getting cooler on its way down when it meets a small cold stream. You need just to swim up or down until you gain what is the right temperature for you in this paradise.

When the evening arrived the rain and the cold wind came. That was the greatest of the moments, hardly anyone around us, thunders, pouring down, all this steam coming from the pool creating fog that was covering the pool and the forest around making the place like any of those describes on the Lord of the Rings.

More photos!!!!

hi guys,

surprise! surprise!
check the photo section  (http://theamericasbycycle.blogspot.com/p/thanks-to.html) and enjoy :)
see ya on the road!

Canada, Yukon

Hi folks,

We have been more than two hours trying to work out the new settings to post pictures on the blog unsuccessfully so we are going to post few pics and once we sort out we will be back with more writing and more pics on the top of that also you have to see raul's face most of the time because we did not managed to convert the pictures into JPG

That is our first impression about Canada

xxx and speak you soon

Marta and raul

First stop... Primera parada

Hi folks
After 6 days on the road we got a 2 days holidays in a nice campground in Tok,AK to do the washing, check up the bikes and catch up with the world through the Internet, we are not far from the Canadian border and we need to get food for the next week that we are going to be into wildness, in the meantime here you can see some of our pics...
see ya folks!!!

 That our host in Fairbanks thanks to you the beginning of this adventure was so nice and easy
Thanks Helena

First day just before this first pedaling that we have been thinking about for the last 3 years, and We have to say it was a heavy one we are carrying tones of stuff, the food is so heavy :) and there are no shops in distances like 200 miles and we love food unfortunately although between us food we can get in here is crap

as you can see :)

and more in beautiful places.....
that is one of our lunch brake not bad eh?

We are heading south to where the Alaska Highway starts

that could have been the last picture finishing the Alaska Highway, but we are doing the wrong way, because it will be downhill  ;) so the last mile of Alcan is our first mile

That is some of the wild life we passed by on the road (Moose and eagle)....

 

That is how we try to fight with some of the wildlife... 

 but these "little" one we didn't managed yet....

The ice is still melting this time of the year is called in Alaska the "break up" which means spring in Europe

 

the sunset  over here starts at 11pm and  lasts for over an hour, it is just unbelievable 

 

That does not look like one of the Edinburgh front garden doesn't it? That how most of the front gardens look like, they love to collect junck-treasures. I love it!(raul)

 Going to the toilet in Alaska is "an experience", imagine my friends from the UK 40C below 0C going for a poo

Rivers in here are hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee as you can see its a bit cold over here

After 40 miles cycling a straight flat road through the forest we've realized how much we love curves!!!

It sounds like a joke but some partts of Alaska are extremely dry over the year like deserts and spring comes with storms that cause huge fires

Ok Folks that is us for now xxx and hugs 

We are in Alaska?Estamos en Alaska

Hi folks,
Whether you believe it or not we are in Alaska, the bikes are almost ready and in a couple of days if everything goes fine we are setting off down south.

We arrived to Fairbanks last Friday at night, a friend Helena our host was waiting for us at the airport to take us to her cabin a beautiful house on the outside of Fairbanks in the middle of the woods we met her through a friend of mine and without knowing us she has opened her place and her life to help us out getting readies for our adventure. I';s inspiring and difficult to believe until you dont see and meet the people and the places that there are still so many people that live in a great contact with nature. Listening to theirs chats you can grasp all the time the relation ship they have with the space were they live as you can imagine and if not I'll tell you the folk I'm meeting they live with no running water in the middle of the wood with a toilet outside sometime severals meters away from theirs cabins in winter the temperature can go under -40 C, snow everywhere, wild animals and if they are no well prepared when that comes every September they just can die extreme isn't it? And the best things is that all the folk we have met they love it. Talking with Marta about it the feeling that comes to us when we see these people is a deep respect for the way of life they have.

The second night at Helenas we made a bonfire with Helena's friends who came to meet us, the one that impressed us the most was a woman call Gina, this beautiful being works as a nurse part time at the local hospital, well Gina at the party offered us to spend the night at hers. Gina lives far into the wood on the top of a mountain with no electricity, with no running water and on her own @hey guys I want to share with you the way I live do you want to come with me and spend a night sleeping outside in the woods, I've got a shed there with just a roof where you can sleep outdoor. 

Marta and me we looked at each other to confirm that such a present was fine with both and we accepted straight away Gina's offer on the way to her place Gina offered us to stop for a drink in a local pub where we ended for an hour or so dancing like mad to the rhythm of a local band, that was fun. Once in her place she shown us her cottage and we had a cup of tea while Gina was playing the piano after a wee while chatting out and about we went outside to meet the place where we were suppose to spend the night, just few meters away from her place like 40 or so Gina has built a shed with a roof and just one wall facing the forest that totally surrounds her place, if it's not below -2C she likes to sleep outside, crazy :) isn't it? But once you are on this comfortable mattress with the moon facing you, staring at the forest fully covered with all this warm blankets on the top of us you realize that she is not crazy she is just far more intelligent than many of us, where could you sleep better that in there I have to say that it was one of the most beautiful places we ever slept in our life. Ki kiriki the hen was saying to wake us up and there it was Gina too asking us "tea or coffee darling" and she came to where Marta and me were still in bed to bring us the breakfast in bed, that was a moment a big one :) thanks Gina

We are finishing our bikes, putting them back together and getting few more gears that we needed before setting off, hopefully tomorrow We will tighten the spokes and perhaps the day after tomorrow it will be the big day where we will look ahead, the road in front Marta and me together start, take this challenge, this life present giving the firs pedaling down South
Fairbanks, Alaska May 2011

Wish us good luck
we are setting off
:)