Extendedstaydeluxe Fairbanks

... did their usual reliable job forwarding our mail.  Each year we get less and less mail forwarded, as we have gone paperless on most of our regular bills and statements.  The Ice Museum is just a few blocks from the post office.  This is a collection of sculptures from last winter's world championships of ice carving.  It seems that all of the world class ice carvers come to Fairbanks.  The ice here has some special properties, especially high density. We also saw a carving demonstration ...

... road so that when you pull up, the man inside knows someone is waiting. This had to be the easiest border crossing ever. The customs agent asked us if we had any weapons and what we bought in Canada and then let us go on our way.<br><br>As promised to us by the Canadian information center, the American side of the road was in horrible shape. Most of it was dirt road with a lot of big chuck holes. I would not recommend this road for any heavily loaded vehicle ...

... for border-trip / Drive to Mae Sariang January 2, 2009: Drive into Mae Ra Mu refugee camp January 3-4, 2009: Stay in Mae Ra Mu refugee camp January 5, 2009: Return drive to Mae Sariang / Visit Crestos Mission Bible School January 6, 2009: Terry &amp; Jack travel with Write Dee &amp; Joe for six days to remote villages / Rest of team drives to Mae Sot / Begin building project with Matt January 7-8, 2009: Guys on building ...

I've received more than my normal hits on this blog since posting my packing list so I figured I would add hubbies to the mix. Unlike me, his 3-1-1 bag will probably have aftershave and toothpaste in it and he'll rely on a combination of bar soap and hotel freebies the whole trip. I have also shifted some of the books into his bag and he'll be holding onto a few of our common items such as the laundry supplies and camera ...

... cute, but again no top zipper. Good for smaller laptops, but it didn't strike me the right way. The price is definitely right. Tumi is a good quality bag company and their stuff lasts forever. I also strongly considered these bags by Tom Bihn, Sherpani, Crescent Moon, REI, and hundreds of different Etsy stores but was too lazy to do separate descriptions of them.

... person) who may not even have a tomorrow, gives me a right perspective. What is important? Is my faith real, or is it just words out of my lips? Whenever I give a piece of my heart away, God fills it back up with a little extra added. THAT is major fun and living large! Scrooge is right --- at the end of the story, he does indeed have the most fun. It is truely better to give than receive! Jocelyn: I am an ...

... just as bumpy. The Chena Hot Springs are natural springs which pump out water somewhere in the region of 60'C. We spent a good hour wallowing in the sulphur smelling water before heading over to the Ice Museum which was created a few years ago by a local couple. They carved numerous intricate ice sculptures including a jousting scene, a large chess set (with various animals as different pieces), a bar, a castle turret (visitors are no longer permitted to climb the spiral ice staircase up ...

... enough in the Interior of Alaska to see the Northern Lights! http://fairbanks-alaska.com/september-f airbanks.htm So it became that simple. My first major destination was Polychrome Pass in Denali National Park. Located 123 km south of Fairbanks, it was with great anticipation that I directed my trip to this renowned park. It is of immense size covering an area of over 24,000 sq. kilometers and is renowned for Mt. McKinley and Polychrome Pass. Mt. McKinley or Mt.Denali ...

... to amaze that you can fly on a jet plane for hours and then finally get off, and the people are just like the ones you left behind.<br><br> "If you go down by the river, you can see moose and ****," the taxi driver confides, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.<br><br> &#8220;I&#8217;ll keep that in mind,&#8221; I say.<br><br>Of course the reason the people are the same in Alaska ...

... back. We would have been back a couple of hours early, but at our first stop the bus had a small breakdown and we at to wait 2 hours for a new bus to take us the rest of the way. We probably could have gone in the first bus, but they didn't want to take a chance of it happening again further down the road. The bus just stalled as we left the first stop and took a couple of minutes to start again. Not something you want to risk on the road we were taking. The road we took was ...