Sharp's Travels

We left our campground in Tok this morning at 10am. We stopped at mile 70 in a wayside for a break. We drove in rain off and on all morning. We all took our umbrellas and hiked down to the Tanana River that ran along behind the wayside. That gave us our morning exercise, especially the hike back up.

At mile 115 we stopped for lunch at Rika’s Roadhouse. They had great soup and buffalo burgers. After lunch we toured the museum—Alaska Road Commission, Telegraph Station and Barracks. Gay’s got lots of pictures of that along with all the beautiful flowers there.

Just after we got back on the road we crossed the bridge and got our first glimpse of the Alaskan Pipeline. We’ll be seeing more of that while we are here in Fairbanks.

We stopped at Santa Land in North Pole, Alaska. Santa was off today so Spike put on a Santa hat and played that part for us. Wonder is we’ll all get what we want for Christmas?

We went out in back of the gift shop and checked out the reindeer. I got them to eat right out of my hand. Their antlers were in the velvet. I’d never seen that before.

We pulled into our campground The River’s Edge in Fairbanks around 5pm. It didn’t take long and all the rigs were settled in.

After supper we went to the grocery store and then filled up with gas.

We put on 205 miles. It was a good day.

Gay has uploaded pictures for the day see album: Tok to Fairbanks 7-14-08