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Thankfully we’re not quite at that point 😂

I had a '12 for six years with essentially the same experience. Cavalry blue... miss the thing. Can definitely change lanes with a little bit less adrenaline with the li'l bronc, although I'm always going to lament the loss of the three front windshield wipers.

Almost forgot, here are some trip stats as reported by the bronco. There are a few extra miles from driving around Fairbanks for a few days. I think the base tire setup ain’t bad for fuel economy, though it kind of looks like I’m driving around on castor wheels 😅

Couple of pics from the final leg, getting the uhaul unloaded and the old MC out of the truck, and the “dry cabin” I’ll be living in until I find my Alaskan dream home.

Whoops, forgot about posting for the last leg of my journey. The final three hundred or so miles of the Al-Can highway were ROUGH. Picture the worst pot hole you see on the street and scatter it randomly in groups of 15-30 every fifth of a mile. It was a lot of accelerating and engine braking...

Well it WAS fun dodging them driving along 26. May have resulted in some near misses 😅 ooh, and hitting dust devils on a motorcycle is always fun 🤣 But I’ll miss eastern WA too. Been there 14 years and it felt like home!

Day four: northward and onward. Landed at six mile river resort for the night! Saw some buffalo (bison?). Went to where all the license plates in the world are laid to rest.

Day three… made it to toad river lodge. I’m convinced the analog speedometer is for those of us from the US who switch to km/h while in Canada but still want to shift using mph 🤪 that’s the only use I’ve found for that gauge personally, haha. pics from the day (I’m impressed by the number of...

My Fairbanks guide/SO heavily agrees. Somehow they don’t like her and surround me in a cloud while she just strolls along. Not fair.

Day 2 of journey. Lesson #1: you cannot drive a UHaul through the Banff. #1.5, re routing and turning a 550 mile day into a 650 mile day is not fun. #2: two greyhounds fit in a 2-door, 2 Great Danes fit in a four door (met our bronco neighbor in radium hot springs, they were hauling the even...

For now, working remotely in a cabin in the woods via cellular hot spot… great plan I know…

Thanks! Yeah, winters in Eastern WA have been interesting from time to time. When I first moved over there it felt like I came to Hoth, but I got used to it. I’m sure it’s going to be like that all over again now? Though!

I’m going for much colder and darker, haha. Can’t forget the clouds of mosquitoes in the summer, too!! 😅😅😅

Some pics from day 1

So I sold my house and packed up some (too many) of my belongings in a UHaul, and my SO and I are driving that plus the bronc from Eastern WA to Fairbanks, AK. Along with the two of us we’ve got a couple of odd dogs (greyhounds). I figure I’ll post a couple bits of the trip here for shits and...

Added rear seat ventilation for puppy passengers…

I drank margarita mixer and wrapped paracord around my steering wheel. To each their own, I guess 🍻

Having run mine for about a month, I’m loving it. The oddest thing I’ve come across so far is, if I’m on the highway and there is a significant headwind (like 75mph with another 20mph or so of wind) my driver side window (when closed) will blow outward and escape the seal… makes a heck of a...

I probably should have read this post before making my ill-advised (in retrospect) Amazon purchase.

Well, I’ll leave the after photo to @Tricky Dick’s post above. Here’s a before pic for comparison!