2012
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Part Sixteen: Mid Baja California – Santa is Dead/ Santa Lives
23rd December (San Quintin – El Rosaria) (62km) The traffic has become a lot lighter now and the ride 50km down the coast is a breeze. The road then cuts inland to El Rosario. Lobster Burritos at Mama Rosalita’s Restaurant (“world famous” reportedly) are not too bad at all. Have taken a motel room with…
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‘Top Of The World’ Alaska/Yukon Canada
Day 13 (Fairbanks): Two days to rest and check out Fairbanks. Visited the local fair which exhibited a plethora of confused pasty faced, saggy-panted youths and shit-house hippy folk music. A band called ‘Celtic Confusion’ reminded me of a Billy Connolly joke, “I’m not a S’elt ya S’unt”. Day 14 (Fairbanks): Fairbanks has great food…
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The Dalton Highway, Alaska (Deadhorse to Fairbanks)
Part One: The Dalton Highway (Deadhorse to Fairbanks) The Dalton highway gets a day-by-day description given that it is the first challenge of the trip (and I am full of the zeal of a new blogger) and secondly because it was an event of a highway. Deadhorse on the Arctic Sea coast is where this…