A good time was had by all on our journey to remote Teller, Alaska until this not so fortunate occurrence:



Now, normally, a blown tire wouldn't be a serious concern if all of the following criteria hadn't been met at the same time:

1. Your spare doesn't fit.

2. You are literally in the middle of nowhere, the Arctic Tundra, with no cell phone coverage for 75 miles, no other traffic, no houses and no nothing except ravenous, eagle-sized mosquitoes.

3. The back-up van's spare tire doesn't fit either.

4. You don't mind riding through the Arctic with 20+ people in a 15 pax van, two or more of whose deodorant had failed them earlier in the day.

5. Riding on an unpaved stone road where your fillings get loosened and your kidneys take a near lethal blow every mile.

Other than that, it was a lot of laughs.