Category Archives: Interior Alaska

After a quick gro­cery stop in Delta Junc­tion, I stepped onto the Alaska High­way which ter­mi­nates more than 2000km later in Daw­son Creek, Canada, and the first indi­ca­tion that I was get­ting quite near to the Cana­dian Bor­der. Bison were intro­duced into the area in the 1920s but they remained as elu­sive as the other crea­tures I hadn’t […]

With the warm sun­shine on my back and Dez-less I headed down the gen­er­ously wide shoul­der of the “road (that is) paved with gold”. When many of the gold min­ers left dis­cour­aged, their unworked gravel pits were later used to improve the Richard­son High­way, hence the name. The rid­ing was flat and fast, as I reached […]

I didn’t make the 110km to Fair­banks. It took me much longer than usual — about an hour and a half to pack down my tent — as I was ambushed by a mob of mos­qui­toes not even expe­ri­enced up on the Dal­ton. In the end, to do it com­fort­ably, I had to spray my […]

Route Map View Cycling Inte­rior Alaska in a larger map Key By bike By plane By ferry By train By bus After explain­ing the off­side rule and why there is injury time added on at the end of each half to a num­ber of the oil work­ers who were watch­ing the USA get knocked out […]

Dead­horse is not quite on the north­ern coast, it is 8 miles/13 km south of the Arc­tic Ocean. The 8-mile area between the town and the ocean is com­pany ter­ri­tory — the Prud­hoe Bay Oil­fields. The only way to get to the ocean is on a 2-hour bus tour. The 90-minute flight (Alaska is a very […]

Per­haps I was lucky to have made it onto the Con­dor flight from Frank­furt to Alaska. With stricter US entry require­ments, the air­line would not let me fly with the one-way ticket I had bought. I wasn’t going to buy a return because I was intend­ing on cycle tour­ing through The Amer­i­cas and only a […]