ALASKA AT EIGHTY - DAY 2

Logged another 400+ mies today, stopping in Angel Fire NM for a few days to handle some chores.

Found the ranch of his dreams in NM. 

Most of the day was spent outrunning rain clouds. 



But in the end, they found me in the last four miles in the mountains.

Re the eight gallons of fuel, I removed the seat in the tub, making room for cold and hot weather gear, plus the eight gallons of fuel for that last stretch from Coldfoot to Deadhorse, 240 miles with no service, no houses, nothing, just follow the Alaska pipeline across the tundra.

On an earlier trip I met a BMW rider the side of the road without any fuel to make the last twenty miles . He said the winds were so bad it cut his mpg way down. Is better to have too much than not enough.