Fairbanks Inn

... freezers (more like freezing rooms). First we watched a movie telling us about the ice sculpting competition taking place in Fairbanks every winter, with groups coming from all around the world to participate (the museum owner himself takes part in these ...

... that we had about 4 hours of free time. The visitor center staff advised us to visit the museum in University of Alaska- Fairbanks (UAF). They also suggested to use the public transportation and gave us the schedules and maps. We got into the Blue Line ...

... city where the sun never sets. Because it gets so cold in Fairbanks, notice the temperature change in the photo, the car engines have heaters ...

Fairbanks, mit dem Ice ...

... reindeer in a corral today we head. up into the arctic via a van and fly back from cold foot on a bush plane back tonight to Fairbanks , we will be up 260 miles today in the van on the road known as the haul road to the arctic ocean , also seen on the ...

... .  It is right on the Tanana and Nenana rivers. We stopped at several view points and memorials enroute to Fairbanks.  We rolled into the Rivers Edge RV park on the northside of Fairbanks early afternoon.  The park is on ...

... . Anyways, having rejoined the Alaska highway after our 5 day detour, we resumed our northward journey toward Delta Junction and Fairbanks. Delta Junction is the end of the original 1942 Alaska highway, although nowadays it continues on to Fairbanks. We ...

We got up early and left a cold crisp Demali Park and headed back to Fairbanks. After hitting WalMart for supplies for the drive we checked into the Comfort Inn and had a good soak. Not much more to say about today. Other than we wached the news for the ...

... we boarded a buss to find some place to sleep. On this base apparently all beds were taken. Leaving us with 3 days at a Holiday Inn, in town. Our new SgtMaj. made it very clear that we were not to leave the hotel. After about an hour of consideration ...

Checked in and in the room. Hanging in the room going to dinner in a few and maybe downtown Fairbanks after.  ...

We stayed at 7 Gables Inn when we returned from the Dalton highway.  Still long-hour driving, but getting back on paved roads felt so good.  We washed the RV at the campground near Yukon river bridge.  Otherwise the dirt would be all over ...

... of the staff soon made it over to jump start us and we were off. After a 4 hour drive we made it into Fairbanks and headed straight to the Comfort Inn. We were told our room was broke.They sent us to a Super8 (that is "just as good").:NOT. We declined ...

... after we got to Fairbanks, we found out there were not too many choices and it was 8:00 pm. Finally we pulled in to Fairbanks, Alaska and disembarked from the train. We took at 10-15 minute ride into town where we checked into the Westmark. Rich, Rebecca ...

... flights in Cleveland, Seattle and Fairbanks. The only flight that was delayed in our route was the last one: the Alaska Airlines flight from Fairbanks to Barrow. We reached Barrow by about 8 pm local time. We had to wait for more than a half hour for our ...