I made the same trip from Beverly Hills Florida to Fairbanks Alaska. I was younger and I was only 73. I had a Goldwing a home made camper. That was one of the best trips of my life up the Alcon highway. Happy trails be safe
Nice video man, I crashed on the bridge going into Beaver Creek, at the time it was the last wooden deck bridge. That same week 4 bikes crashed on it. Lots of rain made it slick.
Sunday morning here in SE Michigan. 65 degrees at 6am. Been blue skies and warm for weeks now. Great way to spend the morning with another one of your great videos. Have a safe and great adventure.
Free will.. my take on it is this. The earth is traveling at a high rated speed to somewhere like a cruise ship.. we don’t control where the voyage, but we control how we spend our time during the cruise.
We have the free will of the chessboard we are born on. The size of your chessboard can vary based on your circumstances be it good fortune or bad. We get to make a certain amount of moves for the very short period of time that we get. Hopefully, we learn something about ourselves and others in the process. If our DNA bottlenecks around 275,00 years ago then we represent a very tiny piece of 13.8 billion years so how much free will we have had as a species has been infinitesimal on the very old time clock. Free will for the individual versus free will for humanity also runs into existentialism arguments. Volumes of books have been written on philosophy with college classes on Socrates to Voltaire and after. All that amount of study will get you is less time riding motorcycles. I say ride more, and contemplate less.
Good proof of concept here. About the pondering on existential choices and the seamless segue to the Jamaican fellow opting to open a restaurant in Alaska. Nicely done, nicely experienced and well shared.
Nice music selection at the 24:00 mark or so. Those beats align nicely with the passing scenery and just makes a satisfying sigh. So pre-determination vs. free will...Then the owner of Jam Jam's Spot shows up and, I think pins the needle, on free will, lol. Very cool and I wish him all the best with his restaurant. Another great chapter, Craig. Was just looking at your website. I see your books and online (?) courses but I was also wondering if you do talks/personal appearances as I don't live too far from you and I will definitely be poring over these materials at some point in the not too distant future. Also looking to line up stuff to do during the off-season.
I don't really do talks, not that I wouldn't if asked...I do have the monthly memberships on my website. We do a monthly Zoom meeting where several of us get together and talk about motorcycle stuff and life in general. Everyone who has a paying membership is invited.
Great video mate, I recently done the ride Anchorage to Seattle ( July/Aug ) with Eagle rider….fantastic would do it again. In Australia our mountains compared to Alaska and BC are ant hills.
That is a little bit of a myth. I have had some flaggers wave us up to the front and had one get very irate with us for moving without being called (even though the RV in front of us waved us around). After that experience, I wait to be called by the flagger. Sitting behind 20 vehicles with traffic coming in the other direction, moving up was not an option.
Craig, I liked the wondering about freewill. Freewill has two obvious, and one not so obvious aspects. The most obvious part is the “free” part. Free in the sense that it can be free of external and internal influences. Your mom might say put on a sweater, and you might be feeling cold and want to do so, but you have the free-dumb to not do so. That’s the free part. On it surface. You go deeper, you ask yourself if the freeness is free if it is based on a desire to defy? Or on any desire? So long as the desire that drives the “free” decision isn’t free, the ostensibly free decision ain’t free. Maybe I don’t want you to wear a sweater and tell you to because I know you’re defiant. That kind. One level below that is the question about the capacity of a material system to be truly path dependent. If we know the states of all parts of a system at time n-1 then, using laws of nature (known and to be discovered) in principle we can predict the state of the system at time n+1. The mind just being a physical system this must obtain. So the free part feels right, but becomes hard to defend. Then there is the will part. “Will”- is it mere desire? Is it a material part of a material system? Or is will some deux ex machina, an extra-physical cause? If it is mere desire, then can it really be free? Can it really belong to a person. This last invocation- of “person”- takes us into the more recondite discussion of sentience. We know hands and teeth and eyes and brains are not sentient. They have sense-organs, which are detectors and signal transducers, but they are not what generates the “first person subjective experience”. She who has the subjective experience is the person. So, where in this body is the “person”. I don’t think a biker comment forum is the appropriate place for these cogitations. I just wanted to signify your venture into profundity. Thank you for mooting the subject!
Between the trucks and touristas ... some of those roads seem "aggravating" to ride. Are there alternate routes off the beaten path up there or are you forced to use the mains?
If you have the right maps you could find logging or oil field roads, but there are only a few main roads that go from point. A to B. Sure the trucks and RVs in some areas can be irritating, but nothing like living in the Northeast.
@@LivingOffTheSlab This is true.... 😐 I took the Goldwing on a ride into the Berkshires Saturday, But I did I it on the deep, even dirt back roads to avoid the Leafpeepers swarming all over the main routes. On Sunday I was back up in the Berks on the KTM and you know, I didn't see one car or tourist out on those trails 🤣 Northeast traffic and drivers are just some of the reasons I prefer off-road /enduro riding...
28:01 I have a different take on ‘free will’…. I look at it from a spiritual perspective. We are free to choose to worship our creator or not. He does not force us into accepting, believing or worshiping Him.
Free will? We’re born, we die, and in between we get a bunch of rules dropped on us. Rules that we spend a good part of our lives trying to circumvent. “Fun” is something the state does its best to eliminate.
The US Constitution is the first governing document to recognize free will as a God-given right. All of those societal pressures may influence what we choose, but the choice is still there. We don’t, however, have control over the consequences of the actions we choose to take. Bummer.
I made the same trip from Beverly Hills Florida to Fairbanks Alaska. I was younger and I was only 73. I had a Goldwing a home made camper. That was one of the best trips of my life up the Alcon highway. Happy trails be safe
I am a chilean rider, I am 73, your videos are very motivartors
I stayed at Liard Hot Springs Lodge on my trip in 2001. It was a great place and those hot springs are awesome too.
Free will is tough to attain while dealing with the constant compromise of others seeking there’s 👍🏻
Nice video man, I crashed on the bridge going into Beaver Creek, at the time it was the last wooden deck bridge. That same week 4 bikes crashed on it. Lots of rain made it slick.
Sunday morning here in SE Michigan. 65 degrees at 6am. Been blue skies and warm for weeks now. Great way to spend the morning with another one of your great videos. Have a safe and great adventure.
Another great video! Thanks Craig for all your hard work. I really look forward to every one…
Free will.. my take on it is this. The earth is traveling at a high rated speed to somewhere like a cruise ship.. we don’t control where the voyage, but we control how we spend our time during the cruise.
We have the free will of the chessboard we are born on. The size of your chessboard can vary based on your circumstances be it good fortune or bad. We get to make a certain amount of moves for the very short period of time that we get. Hopefully, we learn something about ourselves and others in the process. If our DNA bottlenecks around 275,00 years ago then we represent a very tiny piece of 13.8 billion years so how much free will we have had as a species has been infinitesimal on the very old time clock. Free will for the individual versus free will for humanity also runs into existentialism arguments. Volumes of books have been written on philosophy with college classes on Socrates to Voltaire and after. All that amount of study will get you is less time riding motorcycles. I say ride more, and contemplate less.
Another enjoyable video, thanks.
My morning coffee and a great video! Great way to start the day! Ride safe!!
Good proof of concept here. About the pondering on existential choices and the seamless segue to the Jamaican fellow opting to open a restaurant in Alaska. Nicely done, nicely experienced and well shared.
A lot of miles on that Tim's card 👍
It did, thank you so much!
Nice music selection at the 24:00 mark or so. Those beats align nicely with the passing scenery and just makes a satisfying sigh. So pre-determination vs. free will...Then the owner of Jam Jam's Spot shows up and, I think pins the needle, on free will, lol. Very cool and I wish him all the best with his restaurant.
Another great chapter, Craig. Was just looking at your website. I see your books and online (?) courses but I was also wondering if you do talks/personal appearances as I don't live too far from you and I will definitely be poring over these materials at some point in the not too distant future. Also looking to line up stuff to do during the off-season.
I don't really do talks, not that I wouldn't if asked...I do have the monthly memberships on my website. We do a monthly Zoom meeting where several of us get together and talk about motorcycle stuff and life in general. Everyone who has a paying membership is invited.
I stayed in that Quality Inn in Whitehorse in '22. Same vibes. Not bad, but questionable externally! Great video series!
Great video Craig! I was off TH-cam for a while you had just gotten the tenere when I was here last, I have a lot of catching up to do!
Yeah, that has been a few years. Thanks for coming back!
15:22 too bad you missed out on Denali. It is quite spectacular.
Great video mate, I recently done the ride Anchorage to Seattle ( July/Aug ) with Eagle rider….fantastic would do it again. In Australia our mountains compared to Alaska and BC are ant hills.
I have had heavy clothes pop the dryer door open on my current dryer : /
Hey Craig, can’t bikes go to the front of the line in Alaska construction zones?? Not sure about Canada.
Great video, thanks for sharing 👍🏻
That is a little bit of a myth. I have had some flaggers wave us up to the front and had one get very irate with us for moving without being called (even though the RV in front of us waved us around). After that experience, I wait to be called by the flagger.
Sitting behind 20 vehicles with traffic coming in the other direction, moving up was not an option.
Craig, I liked the wondering about freewill.
Freewill has two obvious, and one not so obvious aspects. The most obvious part is the “free” part. Free in the sense that it can be free of external and internal influences. Your mom might say put on a sweater, and you might be feeling cold and want to do so, but you have the free-dumb to not do so. That’s the free part. On it surface.
You go deeper, you ask yourself if the freeness is free if it is based on a desire to defy? Or on any desire? So long as the desire that drives the “free” decision isn’t free, the ostensibly free decision ain’t free.
Maybe I don’t want you to wear a sweater and tell you to because I know you’re defiant. That kind.
One level below that is the question about the capacity of a material system to be truly path dependent. If we know the states of all parts of a system at time n-1 then, using laws of nature (known and to be discovered) in principle we can predict the state of the system at time n+1. The mind just being a physical system this must obtain.
So the free part feels right, but becomes hard to defend.
Then there is the will part. “Will”- is it mere desire? Is it a material part of a material system? Or is will some deux ex machina, an extra-physical cause? If it is mere desire, then can it really be free? Can it really belong to a person.
This last invocation- of “person”- takes us into the more recondite discussion of sentience. We know hands and teeth and eyes and brains are not sentient. They have sense-organs, which are detectors and signal transducers, but they are not what generates the “first person subjective experience”. She who has the subjective experience is the person. So, where in this body is the “person”. I don’t think a biker comment forum is the appropriate place for these cogitations.
I just wanted to signify your venture into profundity. Thank you for mooting the subject!
It is an interesting topic to ponder over a beer or cigar...
@@LivingOffTheSlab or bourbon 🥃 😄
Between the trucks and touristas ... some of those roads seem "aggravating" to ride. Are there alternate routes off the beaten path up there or are you forced to use the mains?
If you have the right maps you could find logging or oil field roads, but there are only a few main roads that go from point. A to B. Sure the trucks and RVs in some areas can be irritating, but nothing like living in the Northeast.
@@LivingOffTheSlab This is true.... 😐 I took the Goldwing on a ride into the Berkshires Saturday, But I did I it on the deep, even dirt back roads to avoid the Leafpeepers swarming all over the main routes. On Sunday I was back up in the Berks on the KTM and you know, I didn't see one car or tourist out on those trails 🤣 Northeast traffic and drivers are just some of the reasons I prefer off-road /enduro riding...
Huh. Did you out yourself as a Sam Harris listener? 👍
On occasion, a long with a few others.
28:01 I have a different take on ‘free will’…. I look at it from a spiritual perspective. We are free to choose to worship our creator or not. He does not force us into accepting, believing or worshiping Him.
Free will? We’re born, we die, and in between we get a bunch of rules dropped on us. Rules that we spend a good part of our lives trying to circumvent. “Fun” is something the state does its best to eliminate.
The US Constitution is the first governing document to recognize free will as a God-given right. All of those societal pressures may influence what we choose, but the choice is still there. We don’t, however, have control over the consequences of the actions we choose to take. Bummer.
Yes! I was the first viewer!!!
Great videos, I'm looking to my ride to Fairbanks and N in 2025. Your videos have been an unbelievable help for preparing!