Alaskaland - Pioneer Park Fairbanks

Thursday, July 30, 2009 - Fairbanks, Alaska - Day 5 of 6 A lot of you have asked about Art's health.  I haven't mentioned it lately not wanting to jinx it, but he is feeling much better.  He will live another day to annoy...I mean enjoy our ...

... Wild. Along our ride we got two photo stops that were scenic and allowed us to stretch our legs some. We arrived in downtown Fairbanks around lunch time and were given some time on our own. We decided to get something to eat and went into a cute little ...

... gerade den untersten teil erkennen, da an dem tag fast alles in dicke wolken gehuellt war. schliesslich erreichten wir fairbanks und verbringen jetzt noch einige tage in dieser kleineren stadt. es gibt immer noch einige vorbereitungen zu treffen und ...

... 4 stories high, built in 1986, and holds 900 passengers. We got to see bush planes and pontoon planes take off and land, the champion sled dogs of internationally acclaimed dog-sledder, Susan Butcher, who is a four-time winner of the 1,100 mile Iditarod ...

... crossing the river by ferry, the road out of Dawson City led to the most  remote and beautiful  region of no-man's-land I have ever experienced.  It’s a dirt/gravel road called the Top of the World Hwy and it was the best I’ve ...

... fish. The one-hour tour of the Large Animal Research Station (formerly the musk ox farm) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks was interesting.  The tour gave good explanations about the research being done on musk ox and caribou.  The ...

... up is unreal. It costs us $30-50, tourists will pay hundreds, and there are a lot of them here! A little geographical info, Fairbanks' population is 30,000 within city limits but there are more than 100,000 "in the hills" as I've been told, because ...

... daylight hours of our trip.   We passed through Delta Junction, the official end of the Alaska Highway, although many Fairbanks residents believe their city to be the end of the highway. The highway from Delta Junction is the Richardson ...

... to do-the old guy in the first place suggested that Debs and I would love to go to the North Pole (a town near Fairbanks that they have cunningly called North Pole so tourists can go there and pretend they've actually been to the North Pole-amazing!) ...

... .  It is a  3 1/2 hour riverboat tour up the Chena River.  The trip included watching a bush pilot take off and land on the Chena River, various landmarks along the way and a stop at the Chena Village for one hour.  The first part of ...