{"id":557,"date":"2015-07-04T03:41:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T07:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2015-07-04T03:41:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T07:41:31","slug":"day-31-july-1-end-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Day 31 (July 1): End of the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fairbanks, AK<\/p>\n

9,431 km<\/p>\n

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Well, I’m here. I’m here? I’m here! Goddamn–I made it! The end of The Alaska Highway. Well, the unofficial end, anyway. The official end is Delta Junction, which I passed through about<\/p>\n
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Delta Junction: End of the road (officially).<\/p><\/div>\n

150 km ago. That’s where the mile marker is. Of course, I had to go to the end, official or not, lest there be any doubt as to whether I have, in fact, ridden The Alaska Highway from one end to the other.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The skies have not parted (except to release buckets of rain); there has been no epiphany; no Holy Grail; no life-altering visions; no… uh… anything, really. I mean, except for the comfort and bragging rights from the knowledge I have ridden across Canada and up to Alaska. In fairness, the dream I had so many years ago did not promise anything beyond riding a motorcycle to Alaska.<\/div>\n
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Hmmmm. So now what? Guess I’ll ride back home.<\/div>\n
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“…and you may ask yourself, ‘Well, how did I get here?'”<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Ah, but it never was about the destination, was it? It’s about the journey; the ride. And what a ride it has been. I have had an opportunity to see parts of Canada I have only heard about or seen pictures of; and parts I did not know existed. Moreover, I have had a chance to meet and speak with the people who live there as well as others who, like me, are discovering.<\/div>\n
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How long has it been since Calgary? Seems like an eternity ago.\u00a0I’ll try to retrace my steps in the next few posts.<\/div>\n

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