Brrr….

Another day…another secret mission, and this one is cold!

It was 82 degrees at my home in So Cal yesterday, and we had a dandy St. Patrick’s corned beef and cabbage dinner.   That grand meal (along with a bit of Killian Red) really hit the spot.   Then I was up at 2:00 this morning to make an 0:Dark:30 flight out of LAX.   A few hours and a couple of planes later I arrived at my destination: Fort St. John, right on the Alaskan Highway, up in northern British Columbia.

It’s -1 degree here, and it’s snowing.   Folks, it’s cold!  This is the view from my hotel room…

That photo above is actually a color photo.   It’s just bleak out there.  Seems like we’ve included a lot of black-and-white photos on the blog lately, mostly because of the trove of original Mustang pictures in Steve’s new collection (like Willie Nelson and Nancy Rae).   And by the way, those two photos of Willie and Nancy Rae are now popping up all over the Internet (lots of industry folks and gearheads read this blog).   My favorite motorcycle magazine is actually going to run the Willie photo in its next issue!

So, back to Fort St. John.   This place has an interesting history, involving moving the town back and forth on different sides of the Peace River over the last 200+ years, a massacre in 1823, and lots of other cool stuff.  Here’s a view of Fort St. John from the early 1900s….

Like I said above, cool stuff (and I mean that literally…it’s the middle of the afternoon here, and it sure isn’t going to get warmer when the sun goes down).

I need to think warm thoughts…like when we did that Baja run down to Cabo on the CSC-150 motorcycles and struggled for over a week with the extreme heat.   I could sure use some of that right now!

Speaking of which, here’s a video from that trip by my good buddy Primo John.   Folks, on that adventure the heat was oppressive!   I feel warmer just thinking about it!

Later, folks.  Ride safe.   Stay warm.