[Four-wheelers, aka ATVs, in Restless in the Grave, the 19th Kate Shugak novel]
This is a four-wheeler, also known as an ATV, or all-terrain vehicle.
photo from http://www.atvurge.com/sarah-palin-riding-an-atv/
They’re made by Suzuki, Yamaha, Polaris and Honda, among others. They are basic transportation in Bush Alaska along with snow machines and small planes. It’s how kids get to school, how hunters get to moose, and how shoppers get to the big town upriver with the big store in it. People decorate them and ride them in Fourth of July parades.
This would be the Alaskan Bush equivalent of an RV towing a car. (photo by Pati Crofut)
Four-wheelers work as taxis. You can stick out your thumb and hitch rides on them. When I went to Savoonga on an Operation Santa with the Alaska Air National Guard one December, every four-wheeler in the village met the Herc and ferried us to the gym.
Operation Santa
Here’s the whole slide show from one OpSanta.
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From the Poisoned Pen. Dana will be in the house on Saturday, February 11, 2012, talking and signing.
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