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postheadericon Cheri Aug-29-12

1:41 AM | Posted by Sharp's Travels

We were up at 5am—got ready and went to wash the rig.  Gay’s hands were frozen when he got done.  It was only 28 degrees when we got up.

 We pulled out of the park at 9:30am and headed towards Fairbanks.  It is the second largest city in Alaska.  We followed along the Alaskan Mountain Range and Spike pointed out Mt. McKinley.  The peaks were all covered with snow.  It was so pretty.

 We stopped at Rika’s roadhouse & Museum for lunch.  We browsed around outside and Gay took lots of pictures of the old buildings and gardens.  We went into the restaurant and gift shop.  This time of the year everything is on sale up here so we both bought a fleece lined jacket.

 On the road again, we were off to the North Pole with a chance to get your picture taken with Santa.  We passed a portion of the Alaskan Pipe Line.  It runs for 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez.  

 Gay and I by-passed on Santa’s Village and headed right on into our campground to get the layout of the park and be ready when the gang arrived.  The rest of the group spent about 45 minutes looking around at Santa’s Village.

 Everyone flowed into the park and to their sites in no time.  It wasn’t long before Spike got a call from one of the rigs saying he was having a problem.  He thought he needed to go to the hospital.  Spike took him right over and as yet we haven’t heard how he is doing.  We took their 2 dogs for a walk and will keeping checking on them until Jim & Lorraine return.

 Gay and I then got our unit set up, had some soup for dinner.  Later in the evening a bunch of antique cars filed through the campground and parked up in front of the office.  We all took our cameras up and got a few pictures.  Gay posted a few of his favorites.  

 We will be spending 4 days here.  We will have 2 free days, so we will have lots to check out.
To see pictures of the day click on this link https://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on album: Tok to Fairbanks.

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