AFTER DENALI

Lee & I at the Indian village.


Unbelievable that it has been a week since I posted last. Time does fly when you're having fun.

We left Cantwell and drove to Fairbanks. We liked Fairbanks a great deal...it was large enough that there were things to do, but not so large that it felt like you were in a big city.

While we were there we did a riverboat tour that really didn't deal with the river as much as the people around Fairbanks. Susan Butcher's (Iditarod champion, she passed away from leukemia in 2006) husband gave a talk about their kennels and a little about Susan. He gave a demonstration with the sled dogs. We also had a bush pilot take off and land right next to the riverboat. We then traveled down the river to an Indian village. Indians from several regions of the state gave informational talks about their dress, preparation of salmon, their houses (no, not igloos) and just about their lives. Very interesting and not commercialized at all.

The next day Lee, Burl and I went to the University of Alaska to the Museum of the North. Fantastic museum with a lot of information. Next we went to a automobile museum that probably had one of the most impressive collection of cars that we have ever seen.

We left Fairbanks behind and traveled to Whitehorse, where we stayed at a hot springs and lazed around for the afternoon and evening. Today we traveled to Watson Lake in the Yukon. Pretty little town of about 400 people but very busy as it is a major crossroads to Alaska and other parts of the Yukon and BC.

We are now meandering our way back home.