Mustang Sally-Pa. to Alaska

The song should go," Get on you BMW and ride , Sally, Ride", cause that is all we have been doing. There are riders and there are "posers". Posers buy the chaps and leathers or the 900$ riding suits, and then ride 30 miles for a beer. Here's how to spot a rider-bungie cords. Long rage riders can never fit everything they need in bags-hence the famous bungie cord. I have lots of bungie corded gear. That's because I am too cheap to buy good large saddle bags. I put my stuff in trash bags-then inside old ski boot bags-and bungie away. I doubt if there are too many homeless BMW Riders, but I sure look like one.
Getting back to Ride Sally Ride, we had a hard ride yesterday-almost 400 in remote wilderness (Whitehorse to Tok). Riding long distances is not easy. You twist a spring loaded throttle counterclockwise for 8 to 10 hours. Your hand and wrist ache-plus your right hand increases two glove sizes. The road is bad in spots-frost heaved and you might have to drive an extremely dusty, gravel road for ten miles. Picture driving in the Pine Barrens in NJ at 60-70 MPH. and then hitting a gravel stretch. The top heavy, overloaded bikes tend to "waltz" around.
My windshield looked like it was tie-dyed with IG's (insect guts). Later I found I had third degree "ring around the collar. Another NR bites the dust-literally. The next fun activity is setting up camp in swarms of mosquitoes-not the itty bitty ones in Pa. These bruisers have heart shaped tattoos with DEET inside the heart.
TRAVEL TIP # 6 Don't forget that you are wearing a mosquito net when you take a bite of your granola bar.