SAVE THE DATE TIME & MONEY JUNE 11, 2011 DESTINATION ALASKA

In my quest to complete my to do list of covering all 50 states on 2's, NEXT YEAR I'm heading to Alaska.
So for those who want to see this country from a 2 wheel perspective, this is the trip for you.
Depending on who is in for the ride and where they are coming from we have three possible entry points into Canada:
North Dakota, Montana, or Washington.

There will be a map and checkpoints of locations that I would like to reach before we call it a day of riding, but nothing is set in stone.

The goal is to be in Fairbanks Alaska by June 21 which is the Summer Soltice,
where the sun will not set and there will be 24 hours of daylight.

For those with smaller gas tanks an auxillary tank or gas can will be advised.
There will be some camping involved due to the lack of and/or expense of lodging.
While I have slept outside before with my bike, I wouldn't say that I've actually been camping before, LOL.
I know there is a lot of limiting factors for a trip like this, but if you can make it,
you're in for the ride of a life time.

Departing June 11, 2011 and Arriving back home sometime over the 4th of July Weeknd 2011.

Holla Back if this may be of interest to you and feel free to forward.

By the way did you know that Black Soldiers built part of the ALCAN Highway?
http://www.alaskahighwayarchives.ca/en/chap2/3blac...
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=...

Magazine Article Excerpt

The Black Corps of Engineers and the construction of the Alaska (ALCAN) Highway
by E. Valerie Smith
Miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles. Temperatures of sixty below zero and dropping. More snow than a southerner or northerner could ever imagine..and the people... where are the people?
So describes the welcome which greeted the black men of the 93rd, 95th, 97th (Regiments) and 388th Battalion (Separate) of the Corps of Engineers assigned to Alaska. "Their 3,695 troops accounted for slightly more than a third of the 10,607 engineers on the highway." These soldiers made a major contribution to the war effort which, until recently, was not recognized.
The building of the ALCAN has been described in the same vein as the building of the Panama Canal, a feat which most people believed couldn't be done. Faced with innumerable odds, the soldiers persevered and accomplished what no others could, build a highway in record time through some of the roughest terrain in the U.S. Known as the ALCAN (Alaska-Canada Highway), once built, this road was to become the only overland route which strategically linked the north to the remainder of the United States and facilitated the construction of airstrips for refueling planes and supply routes. Among the adverse conditions which these courageous men overcame were:
* an extremely harsh climate for many men who had only known the southern U.S. climate and others who had experienced only mildly cold weather;
* insufficient clothing and accommodations, because the men were in the cold for months dressed in warm weather clothing and living in tents. The white soldiers were usually housed in the sturdier quonset huts and on the air bases;
* gross personal insult because of the pervasive belief that African Americans were inferior; the fear of many top Army personnel that the soldiers would harm the civilization of the indigenous population if they had contact with it and; the outspoken offensive posture of Commanding General S.B. Buckner, who feared that African American contacts with locals would produce a "mongrel race" through interbreeding and;
* severe discriminatory policies, segregation and isolation because the facilities, supplies, etc., were inferior, and in most instances camps were established in isolated areas away from towns with cloth tents as living quarters.

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