Talk to everyone on Friday.
This entry was written by , posted on August 3, 2009 at 7:37 pm, filed under Alaska and tagged coldfoot, dalton highway, deadhorse, haul road, prudhoe bay. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
So many doubters. So very many, many doubters. Why do people doubt? What is there to doubt? That we’ll make to Prudhoe Bay? We’ll make it to Prudhoe Bay. There is no doubt in that. Even if we have to build a tire out of muskox horn and caribou hide, we will make it to Prudhoe Bay. And then on Friday we will make it back to Cooper Landing, drop the car off, tell everyone how epic we are, and go to work on Saturday. Piece of cake. Nothing to worry about. I’m not worried, so why would anyone else be? Exactly.
I still haven’t washed my hair, and I still haven’t been to Asia. I don’t know why, but this seems pertinent. Other than Australia and Antarctica (which obviously doesn’t count), I’ve been to every continent (though I’ve barely been to Africa; Morocco barely counts). I guess this is pertinent because tomorrow I and some friends will embark on a roadtrip that will bring us into the Arctic Circle, much further north than I have ever been to my life. Further north than the most northerly point in Iceland; as far north as the tops of Sweden and Norway. Fucking far north. And all of this is happening in a Ford Focus, with three other dudes. I couldn’t think of a better way to spend four-and-a-half days.
So nay-sayers, let me say this: You are wrong, but it doesn’t even matter that you are wrong. What matters is that you are nay-saying in the first place, that you are doubting four young dreamers, four young men who dared to drive the Haul Road and push it further than most Kenai Princess Lodge employees have ever wished to push it. Do you not dream nay-sayers, or are you content to live your mundane lives? Do you not want to see caribou? Sit naked atop a snorting muskox? You do not nay-sayers. All you want to do is squelch dreams. But ours is dream that can’t be squelched. Because we’re driving in a Ford Focus.
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