Chuck:
Last night we were dry camped in the Dawson Creek Wal-Mart parking lot. So this morning we resupplied and probably more than paid for our “camp site”. I biked two miles to the official start of the Alaska Highway, Mile Post 0. We snapped some photos, loaded my bike in the CRV and started driving north on the Alaskan Highway to Fort Nelson. We will bike the Alaska Highway (1,523 miles) as we come south after biking from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay. Amazing how fast the miles go by when driving, also those hills are not really all that bad. Today was a good “critter day”: one dead moose, probably road-kill, much later a half-grown calf grazing, then a small black bear and later a fox. After driving 287 miles, we entered Fort Nelson and immediately saw a large gravel parking area near an unused building – home for the night. Stir-fry, garlic toast, some white wine (and beer); a very pleasant day.