Moose Creek Campground, YT >> Watson Lake Campground, YT 516 miles ridden/12 hours
The Yukon has the best campgrounds: Ample space, relatively few mosquitos, every other site vacant, free firewood… all for $12CDN. If only they had showers!
So I’m trying to dry out my boots, gloves and socks until I can find laundry. Hopefully tomorrow at the Liard Hot Springs. Might stay there overnight. It’s only 3 hours away and I kind of regret not charging it, but it would have been 11p or so by the time I got there and I was already feeling tired. The last time I spent too long in the saddle, the night didn’t end well… Besides, it’s not a race; the trip’s meant to be enjoyed.
Makes me wonder how the Iron Butt Rally guys do it: the entry-level accomplishment is riding 1,000 miles in a day, and after riding a few 14-hour days, I’ve gotten nowhere near achieving this meager milestone.
If I stay overnight at Laird Hot Springs, the 125-mile, one-way detour to the Northwest Territories will be en route to Fort Nelson and I won’t have to backtrack the next day. We’ll see how hospitable the springs are; it’ll be the weekend after all. Also, it would be nice to know the forecast; maybe they’ll have it there… Oh wait, never mind, I know what it’ll be: Partly sunny with showers. Why stop now?
Thankfully at Whitehorse, the service guy came in for a few hours and was able to change my oil. Funny thing was, as he put it, about 2/3rds of it had gone missing. I know the bike’s been running lean lately, so I’ve been warming it up with the choke open for a while each morning, but this came as a surprise. Now I need to check it every morning and add some when necessary. Just one more thing to strap to the bike: 10W-40!
At a road construction zone, I told the Canadian STOP/SLOW sign holder that only police can direct traffic at work sites in Massachusetts. She laughed. “Don’t they have better things to do?” Ahhh, Canada, how much America could learn from you! To my chagrin, she didn’t have any mosquito-avoidance advice to offer with her policing tips.
How do mosquitos know exactly where the veins are? Bastards!
Notably, this woman works six 14.5 hour days/week all summer. That’s 87 hours/week, not counting overtime, which brings her to 110.5 hours/week… What a sweet gig, where do I sign up?!??
