Georgia – Allen Family Vacation This had been in the works for a while: for the Allen clan to get together like the old days. It used to be that my father, his two brothers, and his parents would all go to the lake every summer vacation with their children camping. Honestly, this was very

Fairbanks, AK – Downtown Pub Crawl I feel like I’ve FINALLY caught up on some of my overdue social media posting and I’m up to date with my journaling. This will be a quick one. Been sticking to a schedule and routine which feels lovely and also have been going to events here in town

Alaska – I’ve been a bit bad about journaling lately, although Fairbanks has been going well ish so far. I feel like I haven’t really enjoyed much of the local area much, but conversely I feel like I’ve caught up A LOT on “life admin” type activities after not having internet for a month and

Yukon, Canada – June 22nd I ended up leaving Dawson City. I was going to originally stay another day or two in Dawson City and maybe join the local mountain bike group or do some of the tourism things I missed out on, but I had an unfortunate interaction with a local that just really

Dawson City, Yukon, Canada – June 20th was the start of the gathering for Dust to Dawson. Now, this is an informal meetup of adventure riders, mostly out of Anchorage Alaska. I was originally turned onto this event from something my uncle said when I mentioned that I’d be passing through Dawson City. Sure enough

Dawson City, Yukon, Canada – I rolled into Dawson City on June 16th. What an interesting little town! For some reason my expectations were that it would be very rural / remote, and quirky. While it was definitely that, I didn’t expect it to be so touristy. Surprisingly, we’d have huge coach buses just roll