She's lived out the lifetime dreams of many people in only
a few years, and she's going to do it again. Long-distance
motorcycle traveler Susan Foss will leave Monday with her
destination at the Alaska Highway.
"I'd be kidding both you and myself if I told you I
wasn't scared," Foss Said. But she added that traveling
the Alaska Highway - also known as the Alcan Highway - has been
a longstanding goal of hers.
Goals aren't just dreams for Foss. Beginning eight years ago,
Foss has traveled throughout the United States by motorcycle,
just she and a small black dog named Comanche, who sits in a
converted milk case. Foss travels in the true free spirit way
on a 750 Honda. She has visited all the lower 48 states. Only
Alaska has been out of her reach.
Foss landed in Woodward last year to visit a friend,
Donna Minton, and stayed on to work on a book about
her travels tentatively titled "Road Magic."
Foss says she will return to Woodward before the snow flies
to continue working on the book.
To fund her wanderlust, Foss has done everything from
waitressing to being a secretary. While in Woodward,
she has worked as a self-employed truck driver.
Woodward has become a home base to Foss, mainly because of
its people, she said. Within a few days of her arrival in
town, people she was acquainted with became protective and
helpful, "like family," she said.
Northwest Oklahoma is a beautiful area made special and
unique by its people, Foss said.
But for now, the road calls and Foss said she's looking
forward to the moment-by-moment events and memories created
by life on the road.