Hmptn Stes Fairbanks

... is a surprise. Anyway, we carried on and joined up with the Alaska Highway. We stopped at a place called Chicken (fun place, was supposed to be called Ptarmigan but the miners couldn't spell that so called it Chicken) then on to Tok (used to Tokyo Camp but during WWII they shortened it to Tok due to not liking the Japanese). Then on to Fairbanks, via a small town called North Pole, where you can find Santa Claus. Very nice. So we stopped for a look.<br><br>I ...

... delicious, and we ate way too much food. We've "munched" our way for 5300 miles, so what's a few more calories. The buffet ends at 2:00, and we were the last people to leave so talked to the waitress and owner quite a bit. The restaurant and grounds have lots of relics from the "Gold Rush" era. The furnishings are all antiques; loved the bar, pool table, full-size grizzly, and the moose antler ...

My Testimony My name is Ben, and I was raised in a Christian home with Christian parents. I accepted Christ into my life at a very young age. I went to a private school in Anchorage and was essentially spoon-fed the Gospel throughout my elementary and high school days. I went to youth group as a student during junior high. The situation in Burma was made aware to me during my eighth grade year in Bible class. Dave Eubank came to our ...

... warm swamp which is surrounded by spruce trees.  We walked around a curve and were stopped in our tracks, a big brown bear was 50 feet away from us trying to get into the garbage bin.  We tried looking big, saying boo, waving our arms, but the darn bear just looked as us, then started to walk towards us!  Luckily some people were walking along the boardwalk coming the other way and they looked bigger and meaner than we did so ...

Chena Hot Springs and Aurora Ice Museum Chena Hot Springs Resort is home to the world's only year-round ice environment in the world, the Aurora Ice Museum! It was created from over 1,000 tons of ice and snow all harvested at the resort. The museum was completed in January 2005 and stays a cool 20 degrees Fahrenheit inside. Keeping the museum icy cold in the heat of summer comes from the patented ...

... there isn't too much of a chance for shopping. I wouldn't torture him by shopping on vacation so we're usually web shoppers. I found out that Old Navy, Banana Republic and GAP all allow combined shipping. Banana Republic has one pair of Relaxed Linen Pants which are lightweight, breathable, and have a flat front, but they somehow don't look like something I can talk him into. I'm considering ordering them anyway just to try them. I'm planning on justifying it by getting a couple ...

Destination 244: km125'786 Ich schlafe in Alaska ohne Thermounterwaesche und muss sogar das Winterfutter aus der Motorradjacke entfernen, so warm ist es hier. So habe ich mir Alaska wirklich nicht vorgestellt. Auch heute scheint die Sonne und da ich mich erinnere, das die Wetteraussichten in Fairbanks bis fuer die kommenden Tage (ja ich weiss, das muss nichts heissen) relativ schoenes Wetter ...

The countdown to my Semester at Sea has officially begun. If my calendar serves me correctly there are 40 days that remain before I depart Anchorage on my way to my first port of call, Nassau, Bahamas. The planning has been extensive and I am officially BROKE. I've depleted my savings (and dipped into others' as well) and have taken out almost countless loans to make next semester ...

July 1 - Drove about 1 ½ hours to camp along the Susitna River on the gravel bar. We did take a drive into Talkeetna with the pickup to see what the town looked like and see where we needed to go for our flight tomorrow. July 2 - Drove into Talkeetna and went for flight over the mountains. It was too cloudy to see the peak of McKinley, but we got to see beautiful scenery of the glaciers and some of the shorter mountain peaks anyway. I ...

... Time travel is real. Right now, as I write this, the girl I most want to read it is in tomorrow. She's part of a day that is a sunset and sunrise away from me. Yet we exist at the same moment. * I met the person I married at the University that was the beginning of my Alaska adventure. I spent a school year living on campus. Began working at the campus radio station because it seemed like a cool thing to do. Got married because I was confused and ...