Up and away from Tok about 8:30 a.m. heading to Fairbanks. We made a stop at Delta Junction which is the official end of the Al-Can Highway (the road actually continues on to Fairbanks, but this was the end of the part constructed during the war). Made our pictures there and got our certificates saying we had completed the Al-Can Highway drive. The mile marker post said 1422 miles from Dawson Creek where we started this part of the trip on June 7.
We talked w/ a young couple from Talkeetna who were bicycling all the way to Newfoundland! They have until Oct. to complete this....young fools! LOL
Tried to stay on Eilson AFB with Graingers for the nite, but the RV park had yucky water and no sewer. Since Barb and I both had to do laundry we decided not to wash clothes in rusty water and so we drove on to North Pole and settled in at Santa Land RV park - right next to Santa Claus House! Believe me, they take every opportunity to play it up. Our site is on one of the reindeer lanes and the hookups have snowmen decorations. In fact our sites are right next to the reindeer pen that is part of Santa Claus House. The gravel company even has huge candy canes as part of their entrance gate!
Santa is at Santa Claus House year round.....I did find an ornament for Santa Land RV park that is very cheesy but very appropriate - has an RV on it. Going to stay several days here as we are taking our 3 day Arctic tour from here. North Pole is only about 11 miles from Fairbanks. We will finally have a bit of downtime.
We made arrangements to board the dogs while we are on our trip and took care of some business and travel plans. Having trouble posting pictures from here - I have a lot of pictures to post, but decided to go on and post the diary part of the blogs so I wouldn't be so very far behind. I will post pix as I can. It took over 10 min. to try and get one picture up and it was still trying to load so I cancelled that part. Sooner or later I will get there with them.....
I think I am going to get a new Snapfish account and download lots of pictures to that site. If anyone wants to see more of what we are doing then they can go to that site. I will keep you posted on when I do that.
Not a real happening day......some pretty scenery, but we are looking forward to the Arctic trip now.....leave Sat. a.m. for 3 day adventure! More later....Linda
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