where's Aldo?

somewhere between fort Mcpherson and Inuvik. i'm driving down the Dempster highway, when wait...what's this? some crazy dude on a bike? yup. A fella from Italy bicycling from whitehorse, yukon to Inuvik,NWT. it's 1125km from fort mcphoo to whitehorse and then another couple of hundred from mcphoo to inuvik so about 1300km total. I had to stop and check his sanity and get a pic. he's been averaging about 100 km a day. very impressive what with the -35 weather. he just camps on the side of the road. he said he wouldn't make inuvik today, but i told him there's a hot meal and a hotel waiting for him so he might pedal a little harder. he spoke about as much english as i speak italian, but we managed to have a nice chat just the same. he passed the legal requirement for sanity, and had the gear so i let him be. i couldn't imagine biking thru those Richardson mountains tho. i'm in inuvik now and just had pizza hut woo hoo!
home tomorrow. weather permitting.