The Dom way round: Fairbanks

Thursday 29 July 2010

Fairbanks

Am I Fairbanks today. So far I like it. It's got that end of the road feel (because it is) BUT its a huge University town and has real University feel to it.

More importantly, the day before yesterday I rode 250 miles down from Anchorage to Seward "on one of Americas top 10 rides". Not a bad way to start a trip. The route was fabulous, sweeping views, curvy roads, ice blue lakes, snowcapped mountains...you get the idea.

Oh yeah, and MY FIRST MOOSE. See picture (and hopefully a video link when I get enough regular wi-fi to upload it.

I've tried to put in a few pictures to show the vastness of this place. It doesn't work but let me tell you ALASKA IS B I G. 2.2 times as big as Texas! Think, the best bits of Scotland, supersized and with a dash of danger (ie bears)

Loving it so far...

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Hi. My name is Dom and in July 2010 I rode a motorcycle (partly) around the world. I started in Alaska and headed for Panama. It took me 6 months and I covered 21,000 miles. I then shipped my bike from Panama to South Africa. I returned to the UK for February and in March 2011 I flew to South Africa. Starting in Cape Town I took three months (and 9,000 miles) to get to Nairobi.

As well as riding a bike I stopped off and did some voluntary work along the way. In Mexico I worked on a turtle rescue project for two weeks and in Costa Rica at a Sloth Sanctuary for three weeks. In Cape Town I taught for three weeks in a Primary school in a township.

In North America my wife, Tracy, came out for three weeks and also joined me for two months in Central America.

I returned to the UK in June 2011. Although I'd kept a blog (obviously) throughout the trip I honestly had no desire to try to write a book. But that changed. Within days of getting home I started writing. Then in Autumn 2011 I found out about The Ted Simon Foundation and applied to be a Jupiter's Traveller. Unbelievably they accepted me and I starting a whole new, and much more frightening, adventure... Trying to write a book about my trip.

'Gone Riding' was published in November 2013. Signed copies are available direct from me at www.domgiles.co.uk. The book is also on Amazon where you can also get the kindle edition. There is lots more information about my trip and the book on my website where you'll find links to my Facebook page and Twitter account.

I now use this blog to write about my current bike trips. In 2013 we went to Scandinavia for the summer and in 2014 we went to Romania. Summer 2015 was spent solo around the Balkans. In July 2016 I went to Poland, the Baltic and Finland.

In the summer of 2017 we went to Northern Spain and France and in 2018 we went to Ireland.

I sold my bike in January 2019!!!