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TKC-80s for our bikes per our request a month earlier and his service department mounted the knobbies , albeit unbalanced , once we ' d removed our wheels from our bikes . There aren ' t a lot of options in Alaska for travelers , and we were grateful for anything that kept us going .
We departed Fairbanks the next day , confident that the road ahead could not possibly be much worse than that which we had already encountered . Ninety miles north of Fairbanks a sign appeared that we were approaching the Dalton Highway , with the caveat that it was an Industrial Road . The pavement ended immediately . On the first curve an oncoming truck blew dust so thick and lingering that whether or not we remained on the road was sheer speculation . And so it went , those blinding moments the