Fairbanks

Friends, Museum, Bus, and Berries

We have spent a few rainy days in Fairbanks taking care of the business of life.  We have done laundry, spent a record amount of money at the grocery store, gotten some prescriptions filled, payed bills, and edited and uploaded a video.  The weather hasn’t cooperated for us to get outside much, but there have …

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Tangle Lakes

We have had a very relaxing week and a half since our journey into Wrangell-St. Elias National Park via the McCarthy Road.  We have spent the time traveling short distances and staying in a combination of roadside pull outs and small BLM campgrounds.  We have spent a few days each in Sourdough Creek Campground, Paxson …

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The Steese Highway

We spent the last few days along the Steese Highway.  This is Alaska Highway 6 that travels northeast from Fairbanks and ends at the town of Circle.  There are both paved and gravel portions of this road.  We only traveled as far as Twelve Mile Summit, which is about halfway, but we found the portion …

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Fairbanks, AK

We have had a very full few days in Fairbanks, AK!  Normally, we don’t spend a ton of time in cities.  We usually prefer to be in more remote and natural areas, but when you come all the way to Alaska, it pays to see as much as you can, even the cities.  It has …

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Alaska Highway: Mission Complete!

Well, we ended up staying in Tok an extra day and not leaving until yesterday.  I think we both underestimated how tired we were from our trek through Canada.  It was so much fun, but there was very little time for rest.  We decided to be kind to ourselves and allow one more day before …

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