Near Fairbanks

... , BC. We will spend 10 days in BC visiting seven cities and 13 days in the YT visiting four cities. We camp in or near 12 cities in Alaska and include the capital city of Juneau by boat from Skagway. We will travel approximately 1400 miles in BC, 1000 ...

... as she is our favorite ice road trucker, but no luck. Maybe we have to wait until there is ice. We checked out a small community near Fairbanks called Ester. It is an old mining community. We saw a few tailing piles, but no gold. Val took me for a walk ...

... stuff 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 ...

So I decided to get away for a Sunday to relax at the well known Chena Hotsprings. It is about an hour away from Fairbanks, and I have been looking forward to seeing it since I got here. Anyone who has ever been to any Hotsprings in Canada, Radium, ...

... 8.30pm. We took a taxi and went to our hotel. The check-in was smooth and we had dinner at a restaurant nearby. As Fairbanks is near but below the arctic circle, there was 22-hour daylight a day in Fairbanks in June. The sun was still shining brightly ...

... Fairbanks If you look at my photos of Fairbanks, you will notice that they are all taken near or around the University of Alaska - Fairbanks. That was not by omission, that was by design. There was little in the town that stirred my enthusiasm.. It was ...

... give me the same rate that I had last night, and they did indeed. The Princess Lodge has been absolutely wonderful!!!! Anyone coming to Fairbanks should stay with them; they have all really gone out of their way to make such a great try for me. After I ...

... ; We all split up in different directions and met back at the bus an hour later to travel to the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Museum.  We were ushered into an auditorium where a movie about the Northern Lights was being shown.  Since Art and I ...

... welcoming troops back from overseas and has a Qantas Club style lounge just for them. There are several large Army and Air Force bases here as well as a major university. Fairbanks is essentially the capital of and gateway to the north of ...

... shop owner followed us out the door playing Waltzing Matilda on a piano according what a surprise,    Then ever onwards to Fairbanks. On arrival we quickly set up camp and then walked this fabulous town The next day we did a tour on the ...

... the headquarters for the Yukon Quest, a 1000 mile long dog sled race similar to the Iditarod except this race runs from Fairbanks to Whitehorse, Canada. I got to talking with the woman who was in charge of coordinating and running everything (I forgot her ...