Good morning everyone. You are about to take part in a 6,000 mile journey which also starts with my first turn of the tires. But before I get started I've asked my wife JoLynn, to make an entry on her thoughts about my trip. JOLYNN: Well, Rob can finally get started on his long awaited Alaskan adventure. He has been planning, organizing, and planning some more for all the details for months now. I remember about a month ago when I came home to a tent and sleeping bag set up in our family room. Now that is camping in comfort [View Full Entry]

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I'm fortunate enough to have friends who own a pontoon so spent the weekend on the Missouri River. The River is home to plenty of sand bars and a very scary current at times. It is not to be messed with. However, it is gorgeous as well and very cooling on warm days. It's also great for my tan :) Here are a few pictures... I also threw in a State Capitol photo. [View Full Entry]

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Wow...in just a few short days there are over 60 subscribers to my travel blog...I hope you will not be dissapointed in my journal entries. Please feel free to make comments that I will publish as I go along...my good friend Chuck Scott has an awesome comment...thanks Chuck for your humorous wisdom on my decision to go to Alaska. Also, pass my blog along to anyone you might think would be interested. Not much photos now, but just wait...... People have asked my why am I driving my motorcycle to Alaska via the Alaska Highway? While I think I know the [View Full Entry]

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Spent the day touring the South and North Units of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Perfect skies and moderate temp. A little windy, but that kept things comfortable. With gas prices now at $3.99/gallon, it's expensive to travel much of anywhere and I was itching to go somewhere, so headed to the western side of my state of North Dakota to see some of our beautiful landscape. Ended up being a great day to tour the Park. We've had plenty of rain recently so everything is greening up well. Made the colors in the Badlands start to pop out. With some [View Full Entry]

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Driving, driving, driving. Yup, that's basically what we have been doing. We had a later start today, because Samuel didn't want to go to sleep last night for quite a while and we were all tired this morning. Having the same problems this evening with Sam and his cold...poor little man. Anyways we made it over the border with no problems...we lost our nectarines to the border guys because they didn't have stickers on them saying where they came from! Oh well. We were planning to camp tonight as the weather has improved a bit since coming south, however the campground [View Full Entry]

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One of the best resources that I came across planning the drive north to Alaska was a magazine called THE MILEPOST. The 2008 edition just came out at a cost at Barnes and Noble for around $28.00 The MILEPOST provides a mile-by-mile description of all major highways and roads in Alaska and northwestern Canada. It includes detailed information on all major destinations (cities, communities, national parks, attractions, etc) and how-to-help for various modes of transportation (air, ferry, railroads, etc). One of the backbones of THE MILEPOST are the highway logs. In these mile-by-mile de [View Full Entry]

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Today is a great day in Bismarck, ND. Sunny today with highs in the high 70s. I have been asked what is my projected route of travel to Anchorage, AK. I put a lot of thought into that route and here is what I have come up with. You will notice that the miles between stops is not that far. This will allow me to spend time at selected cities and enjoy the scenery and people. I will be camping the majority of the trip which will allow me to vary my stops. It seems there will always be room along [View Full Entry]

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Well, it's Friday May 30 and my last day in the ND National Guard even though I don't offically retire until Aug 30, 2008. ( I have over 70 days of leave to use.) Nevertheless, it has been a "great ride" in serving my country and meeting some great people in my travels around the world. Now, I'll take some time for myself and my family which is the reason for this travel blog...to record my motorcycle Alaskan Adventure. It's taken me this past year to plan for my Alaskan trip. The research has taken me to many websites regarding travel [View Full Entry]

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Quietness. Upon the dawn, the chirping of birds. How pleasant it is here on Sauk Lake. The geese and ducks wander nearby as we prepare to start our day. A long, hot shower on a cool spring morning, a bowl of oatmeal with raisins, toast with crunchy peanut butter, it doesn‘t get any better than this. The nights have been in the forties, but our van has stayed in the fifties at night, very comfortable sleeping temperature. Continuing on Route 94 we are traveling along prairies. Passing a pond on the side of the road, we spot what looks like white [View Full Entry]

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Well, I can now say that I've skydived. Today, I took a little plane up over 10,500 feet above the city of West Fargo and dove out! Actually, I was more pushed out since it was a tandem dive and the dive master decided when we went, but you get the idea. What an experience! What prompted this? It was for a good cause. I did the jump for Operation Freefall and through Dru's Dive which will provide a scholarship for low income women in North Dakota and be administered through the North Dakota Council on Abused Women's Services. The scholarship [View Full Entry]

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