On the early evening of a rainy and cold day of July the 10th we reached Dawson Creek - the historic 'Mile 0' of the Alcan! We have done over 2500km on this one of a kind road that winds through the forests, mountains and along the rivers and valleys of Alaska, Yukon and BC.

It's been very intense experience for us, especially that it was our first 2500km on the road; we know that we haven't been very good at sharing it on the blog (we can blame the wilderness and no access to anything:)), but we promise to make up for it!

So, that's us at the beginning of Alaska Highway (which for us was the end)

On the historic day of July the 10th we were invited for a dinner to celebrate this special moment. So we found the best restaurant in town, called White Spot, that apparently has been running since 1928, and enjoy ourselves as much as we could :)

Marta had Salmon rice bowl, which was grilled salmon with Shitake mashroom, red pepper and ginger sauce; raul ate his best-ever-tried veggie burger (wholemeal roll, roasted mushroom, fresh tomato and lettuce and this huge tofu burger) with home-made chips and we shared a huge plate of salad. Marta toasted with a local lager and raul traditionally with a cup of green tea:)Mmmmm, what a change after eating rice and cheese all the time....

Big thanks to Mrta's parents, who invited us for this dinner

Dziękujemy Mamusiu, dziękujemy Tatusiu!

Gracias Teresa, gracias Miroslaw!

hi everyone,

so the Alaska Highway is nearly finished; we are just 70km away from taking this historical picture at the other end of famous Alcan; if it stops raining (it's been pouring down the whole day today) we will get there by tomorrow evening.

I must say we feel a bit sentimental about this fact, we got used to Alcan, we got to like it, there is something special about this road - the history, the wilderness, its uniqueness, we will miss it...

And the wilderness is gone as well; there are flushable toilets on the rest areas, our mobiles have started to work, the Internet is fast...

People travel the Alaska Highway to go to the wild, to reach the "last frontier", to feel the shiver running down their spine, when their realize the immensity of the nature;

so, when you meet someone on the road one of the first questions is: how much wildlife have you seen? well, we have some trophies to show off :)

Black Bear, seen 14; most of the one we have seen just lazily chew on dandelions

Moose, aparently in plantiful up north; well, we've seen only 4

funny squirrel-like animal that was compulsively eating dandelion seeds

These are little monster; a real threat to our food!

Bald Eagle

Clumsy reindeer (here called caribou); no worries, by Christmas it'll be ready to deliver all your presents:)

Stone sheep, yes sheep even thouth it looks like a goat...

Mosquitos, seen and being bitten by countless number of this little beasts

Raven, plenty of them; important bird for the First Nation people

Bison (here called buffalo)

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