Connie makes us another lovely breakfast. And we chat chat chat till late. We hoped the rain might stop before we leave but it continues until we get about 10miles out from Anchorage. We see lots of eagles this morning they are huge bald eagles and so beautiful flying right next to the road.
We arrived in Anchorage at midday and spent the next 2 hours searching for somewhere to get new tyres for the bike. A couple of places would have done it for us but didn't have the right sized tyres. We end up at the Yamaha dealer in town. They need the bike for 2 and half hours!!! so we walked down the road to Maccas for a cuppa while we waited and then visited Anchorage Harley Dealership, Harley has sooo much branded gear and heaps of bikes.
We got back to the Yamaha place a bit early so we start chatting to Steve one of the salesman about a couple of the bigger cruisers (Stratoliner) that they have there he is sooo passionate about his product and well he might be they are great bikes. He shared a story with us about a man who visited him recently having purchased his first bike a Harley Davidson Road King. He parked it out the front came in to Steve and said "Like my new bike?" and Steve basically said "It's OK it's a bike" ha ha this guy said but it's a Road King and Steve said "yeah, is it your first bike?" and the guy replied "yes and I just wanted to come and compare it to these" pointing to the Stratoliner and Steve said "well it doesn't" the guy was pretty angry when he said that and asked if he could take it for a ride, Steve said "Sure ride it twice round the block, the second time like you stole it" so after a bit of paperwork the guy sits on the bike and lifts it and his eyes go wide, then he starts it and off he goes. He gets back and he says to Steve "I am so pissed!!! this bike is waaaay better than mine and all my mates said if I didn't buy a Harley I couldn't ride with them, I'm going home to line them all up and shoot them!" ha ha sooo funny we were laughing so hard!
It is quite late by the time we arrive at our B&B Big Bear....OMG! this place is amazing it's like a museum with a black bear, polar bear and grizzly bear pelt to name a few things. There are also many other animal pelts around the house and walrus tusks. Our room is wonderful we have a bed with a small living area and huge bathroom all to ourselves!
We walked down the road to a Thai/Vietnamese restaurant. Fresh (Vietnamese style) spring rolls to start and then Thai red curry (chicken) to...die...for!!!!
On the way back to the B&B 2 police cars came lights and sirens into the supermarket carpark we were walking across and intercepted a car, out of the car stepped two young men and then a paramedic truck pulled in too and the paramedics started attending to a third young man in the back seat and then a third police car pulled into the carpark all very exciting. Not sure what happened to the young man.
The B&B was a very noisy place we got woken at 2:30am by what sounded like a herd of elephants upstairs!!
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| Anchorage Harley Davidson Dealer |
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| Big Bear B&B |
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| beautiful screen B&B |
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| Polar bear Big Bear B&B |
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| Grizzly Bear Big Bear B&B shot by owners' Father in 1947 |
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