Watson Lake to...Teslin, YT: an itinerary change

Hi everyone. First, sorry about the photos--I know that you used to be able to click on them to make them bigger. I have had to resize the photos because they otherwise take so long to upload to the blog. In so doing, somehow they are getting tweaked so that you can't enlarge them when you view the blog. If anyone has any suggestions regarding how to fix this, send them our direction!!

Well. We had a discussion in Watson Lake about where next to take our dog and pony show. Mark's KTM was an issue--his chain and sprocket were darn near done, and our original plan had been to ride at least 2000 more miles, mostly on dirt, before getting to Fairbanks, where parts were available for him. Rather than run into mechanical problems in the middle of nowhere, we decided to head west, rather than north, to Fairbanks. This was all on the paved Alaska Highway. So we switched our rear tires back to the more street-friendly set up, and had a relatively short, 174 mile trip to a campground outside of Teslin in the Yukon Territory. Here we are, looking calm as we fuel up at the Teslin station. In reality, I kinda needed a beer because i had just ridden across the longest metal grate bridge of my career--hard to keep the ol' DR 650 goin' in a straight line on those things.

Odometer: 3753 miles