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fish

A fish advertising something on the road to Modesto.

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endless possibilities

This is clearly an event to be avoided.

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2009 09 21 anna on my bike Comments (2)

slugs

Slugs are a little gross but some are also pretty amazing. These are a few I have been impressed by.

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2009 09 09 anna idle musings
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share

I sometimes fantasize about the little lectures I’d like to give some large vehicle drivers about sharing. Most people are pretty good; but those that aren’t are scary.

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2009 09 07 anna on my bike Comments (0)

mountains ahead

Since entering Canada I have been regularly confronted with this sign and I am still unsure exactly what it refers to.

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2009 08 05 anna on my bike Comments (3)

urgent story

Strange messages on the side of the road.

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2009 07 27 anna on my bike Comments (0)

ignore this sign

Some instructions are very hard to follow.

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2009 07 21 anna on my bike Comments (4)

valdez

The ferry docks at Valdez at about 8.30 pm and I ride to a campsite just outside town to camp for the night.
Valdez is where the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, that I followed for five hundred miles along the Dalton Highway from Deadhorse until Fairbanks, terminates. The pipeline carries millions and millions of gallons of crude oil each [...]

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2009 07 18 anna on my bike Comments (0)

diamond jim and mary lou

You’ve got to wonder what kind of gifts Diamond Jim and Mary Lou are selling on the Seward Highway. It’s only marginally heartening to see that they are being supervised by Santa.

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2009 07 16 anna on my bike Comments (0)

america abandoned

Cycling in Alaska has done nothing to shake my impression that the highways of America are lined by desolate buildings – sometimes inhabited, sometimes not – surrounded by abandoned cars and other refuse.

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2009 07 14 anna idle musings
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