Watson Lake, Yukon, Kanada.

I dag hjoludum vid afram a hinum fraega Alaska highway og lidum afram i fallegu umhverfi og godu vedri.  Thessi vegur var byggdur i kringum 1942 og fyrir nokkrum arum var thessi vegur skilgreindur sem " The 16th wonder of the engineering world !"  Semsagt mjog merkilegur og sagt er ad allir Amerikubuar eigi ser thann draum ad fara thennan veg ad minnsta kosti einu sinni.  Sumir fara thennan veg einu sinni a ari.  Vegurinn er 2488 km langur og tengir Alaska vid byggdirnar fyrir sunnan.  En nog um thad.   I morgun thegar vid voknudum forum vid a litinn morgunverdastad og satum thar i rolegheitum og bordudum ameriskan morgunverd af bestu gerd !!  Tha var allt i einu logd hendi a oxlina a mer og sagt; How is your english ?  Mer bra pinulitid og leit vid og sa tha reffilega konu a midjum aldri  brosandi ut ad eyrum.  Eg svaradi henni ad vid toludum ensku agaetlega og tha spurdi hun hvort hun maeti setjast hja okkur.  Ad sjalfsogdu samthykktum vid thad og eftir ad hun hafdi nad ser i morgunverd lika, settist hun hja okkur.  Tharna var komin ferdamalastjori Whitehorse !  Hun hafdi verid a gangi fyrir utan og sed hjolin og sidan okkur fyrir innan gluggann og stodst ekki matid ad spjalla vid okkur.  Ur thessu vard hid skemmtilegasta spjall i ca halftima og sagdi hun okkur allt um lifid i Whitehorse og nagrenni.  Thessi kona er fra nordur Englandi og buin ad bua tharna i 18 ar.  Hun, eins og svo margir adrir, elskar Kanada og tha serstaklega nordurhlutann.  Thetta var skemmtilegt og ad lokum baud hun okkur morgunmatinn eda rettara sagt, eins og hun sagdi thetta, " I am not paying for this, my work is " og hlo datt.  Skemmtileg kona.  Eftir thetta forum vid a stufana og eg keypti mer ny solgleraugu thvi hin gafu upp ondina i gaer, thad er, endanlega thvi thau eru buin ad vera ad gefa sig undanfarnar 2 vikur.  Sidan forum vid og keyptum ny dekk a hjolin hja okkur thvi ad kubbadekkin eru ad verda buin.  Vid keyptum nu sitthvora gerdina til ad profa, Einar keypti dekk eins og vid byrjudum a, Metzeler Tourance, en eg keypti mer Acon Distanca.  Thetta er daemigert fyrir okkur braedur thvi reynum alltaf ad vera ekki eins !!!  En ad sjalfsogdu er thetta gert til gamans og sja muninn a thessum dekkjum.  Watson Lake er pinulitill baer alveg a morkum Yukon fylkis og British Columbia fylkis.  Vid gistum a sogufraegu gistiheimili, Airport Lodge, og thar raedur rikjum Austurrikiskona, og tha var skemmtilegt ad koma tharna inn i andyrid thvi thad fyrsta sem hun sagdi var, - Vinsamlega fara ur skonum !  Tharna var greinilega heragi og leit allt ut samkvaemt thvi, thad er, mjog snyrtilegt of hreint.  Einnig sagdi hun ad thad maetti ekki reykja og utihurdinni yrdi laest kl 12:00 !  Ef vid yrdum ekki komnir tha, tha yrdum vid bara ad vera uti !! Allt a hreinu her.  Konan er litil og lagvaxin en mer fannst eg vera litill thegar eg taladi vid hana.   En nog i bili og bless bless.

Today we kept on riding on the famous Alaska highway and passed by beautiful landscape and it was a really good weather. This road was build up around 1942 and few years ago this roas was defined as the -16th wonder of the engineering world ! -  So it's a really well known road and it is said that all Americans dream about going this road at least once in their lifetime.  Some people take this road once a year.  This Alaska road is 2488 km long and connects Alaska to the inhabited areas in the south.  But enough about that.  This morning when we woke up we went to a small breakfastplace and had an Amercian breakfast and that was really good !  Then suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder and to my surprise I saw a lovely woman in a middle age smiling and she asked me if I spoke English.  I told her that I did and she asked if she could sit down to our table and ofcource we invited her to sit with us.  She got her a breakfast and sat down with us.  This woman is the travelmanager in Whitehorse !  She had been walking by the breakfastplace and saw our motorcycles and then us through the window and she couldn't resist to come in and have a chat which was very interesting and amusing and she told us many things about the life in Whitehorse and the areas around. She comes from N-England and has been living here for 18 years.  She, as many others do also, likes Canada and especially the northpart.  She insisted to pay for the breakfast or as she said - I am not paying for this..my work is - and she had a laugh.  It was very nice meeting her and a she is a really great woman.  Later that day I went to buy myself new sunglasses because my older ones were totally finished after beeing broken the last 2 weeks.  Then we went to buy new tires under the motorcycles because the tires we have now are nearly finished.  We bought different types to be able to compare them, Einar bought tires which are the same type we started the trip on, Metzeler Tourance but I bought Acon Distanca.  This is typical for me and my brother and also just for fun to see the differnce between the tires and fun not alwasy doing the same thing. Watson Lake is a small town on the edge of state of Yukon and the state of British Colombia.  We are staying on a historic hotel, Airport Lodge, and in control of there is a lady from Austria and it was amusing when we came into the lobby, -take your shoes off !- was the first thing she said to us.  Obviously everything under control on this hotel and everything was very nice and clean.  She told us also we couldnt smoke and had to be inside the hotel before 12 oclock otherwise we couldn´t get in !  This is a rather small and petite lady but I felt rather little when I spoke to her :)!  But enough for now. 

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[Indridi A. Kristjánsson (IP-tala skráð) 10.7.2007 kl. 14:59]

Sæll Sverrir,

Það var virkilega gaman að sjá ferðasöguna þína frá norðurhéruðum Kanada.  Sjálfur bý ég í Abbotsford, Bresku Kólumbíu og því enn ánægjulegra að vita af einhverjum frá Islandi á ferð hér í Kanada.  Eina spurning mín er sú af hverju þú notar ekki íslenska stafi en velur að slá allt inn með enskum stöfum?  Ég sé þetta hjá mörgum sem skrifa en velti því oft fyrir mér hvort þeir séu ekki meðvitaðir um að  flestar tölvur hafa íslensku stafina - og oft það eina sem þarf að gera er að breyta um mál og lyklauppsetningu.  Í þínu tilfelli var ég ekki viss þar sem mér sýnist þú vilja hafa "enskan" blæ á skrifum þínum.  Það er líka allt í lagi, og kannski góð tilbreyting enda minnir það þá kannski líka á ferðir forfeðra okkar þ.e.a.s. Leifs Eiríksson og félaga, sem fyrstir komu til þessa lands fyrir meira en 1000 árum.   Gangi þér vel á ferðalaginu og ég hlakka til að sjá fleiri ferðapistla innan tíðar.

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Indriði Kristjánsson

Abbotsford, BC

[test (IP-tala skráð) 30.1.2008 kl. 23:43]

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