Denali Highway

We have just finished riding the Denali Highway, a 135 mile dirt road that biects the Alaska Highway system by paralleling the Alaska range. The label "highway" is a misnomer, since the road has a recommended speed limit of 30 mph, which is followed by the few brave souls that drive it because it is covered in potholes, is only open from June through September and there are only 4 lodges. This section has shown us Alaska's bipolar weather, from numb toes to sunburnt cheeks, rainbows and hail, thunderstorms and sunsets, fog and endless rain.We have been getting a little cabin fever from having to wait out numerous storms in the tent,one of which we were in the the tent for 18 hours while it poured and the bottom of our tent was like a waterbed but we stayed totally dry and are finishing books daily. On that particular morning there was a mother moose feeding her calf outside our tent! We watch storms roll across the open tundra (some we out run and some we get pounded by, today we got drenched by rain with hail) dry out when the sun shines through holes in the clouds, crank up steep hills, slap mosquitoes, read books, chat while riding side-by-side, stop at every roadhouse for pie, clean the caked up mud off everything and coffee and stay up late to watch sunsets...we feel so lucky to be able to live this  life!