June 5, 2014
We awoke to another bright, beautiful
and sunny morning. Before breakfast we saw a sea otter swimming
around in the harbor just outside Fred. We are so blessed to be able
to see and enjoy this wonderful place. We are still talking about
our wonderful cruise yesterday and realized there were more pictures
we needed to share.
We seriously considered changing our
plans and staying in Valdez another day or two but then reminded
ourselves that we wanted Donna and Barry to have a good well rounded
taste of Alaska so the four of us decided we should move along as
previously planned.
We left Valdez in route to Fairbanks.
We didn't know how good/bad the roads would be so planned to stop
about half way today. In the lower 48 we certainly would have
driven the 362 miles in one day but we are talking Alaska miles here
– and in the motor home, towing the truck. There were sections of
pavement in quite good condition but many more miles of not so good –
lots of frost heaves. We drove about 45mph on most of the trip
today. We stopped for some caching and enjoying the scenery. We
also made a side trip thru old Copper Center. The oil pipeline
paralleled us for most of the day. We got some good views of it
today. We are actually now 135 miles from Fairbanks. We stopped at
a lovely roadside pullout, did some hiking and caching and decided to
just spend the night here. Hopefully it will be a quiet and restful
night. By the way, sunset is not until after midnight. It is never
dark – just a little dusky.
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| Alaska Pipeline |
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| Our view tonight |
Tomorrow we plan to go to North Pole
and visit with Santa.
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