This trip has been extremely important for us aside from the adventures that we’ve had. Anytime you travel for an extensive amount of time, it’s difficult to avoid being impacted by the experience, and our journey to the Arctic Circle bowled us over in several ways.

I think that one of the most prevalent lessons we were taught on this trip was to be flexible. As we made our way well into Utah, a difficult decision had to be made as Elga was experiencing a few hiccups to her health.

Idaho is beautiful. It really is. astoundingly beautiful, in fact. Neither Kristen or I were aware of that before this week.

In the past 5 days we’ve traveled 5,000 miles. Most of those miles were in the air, but still, that’s a long way.

First, let me say that it is a great joy to go back every time we write a blog post and see the pictures we’ve taken and the experiences that we’ve had.

To all our faithful blog readers, we’re sorry! The past few days have been filled with a lot of waiting in a hotel room with a horrible internet connection

Inuvik, like all the communities of the north, is a phenomenon of fortitude. To live here, you have to expect extremes in everything.

Want to know what it feels like ride a Ural? Over the next couple days we’ll be adding some videos so that you can get a taste. Enjoy!

We woke up feeling rested, ate a quick breakfast and piled our dirty gear back on the mud-caked Elga.

Like the adventurers that came before us, our tale up the Dempster Highway began at a muddy gas station at mile marker 0. For those of you that don’t know, the Dempster is 417 miles

Riding a motorcycle is much more fun when it’s not raining or windy. Kristen and I spent the last week or so riding through pretty nasty conditions but our ride

I think the one thing Kristen and I have learned from the last 900 miles of road is that this part of Canada is extreme. There is no middle ground here