6-25-2013, Morning
Yesterday
we visited the Museum of the North at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. It
has very large exhibits of the cultural history of Alaska and people who helped
in its development. They highlight the very successful ones. That’s normal isn’t
it? The big guys get all the credit and the ones behind them that make it happen
are merely mentioned as those that came west.
See Bob down there?
We
visited their botanical garden exhibit. I was expecting to see many different
kinds of flowers that are grown in the area. Much to my surprise, we were a
month too late for the spring flowers and a month early for the late summer beauty.
The weather here is very hot, expected to be in the 90’s today. Like being in Texas.
They have not had much rain in this area for a while. So the ground is hard and dry.
For
lunch we went to the Cookie Jar which had been visited by Guy Fieri of Diners,
Drive-ins and Dives fame on the Food Network. He must have
been there a long time ago, couldn’t find anybody that knew what he’d eaten
there.
I most likely will go play golf today. I haven’t
picked up a golf stick in over 5 weeks. The course I have chosen is the northern
most USGA sanction golf course in North America. Maybe I can get a tee time at
10 pm. Still plenty of day light available to see the ball.
On
the way into town the other day we saw an Air Force Fire Truck parked along
side of the road. Don’t know if it’s for sale or if the boys in the fire dept
took it shopping for some groceries. Anyway we are going to take a ride and see
if we can locate it. We are curious to see if we rebuild it in Dallas when we
owned Crash Rescue. There should be a plague on the driver’s door. What ya bettin’?
I
believe that the girls are going to the Christmas store today. We are staying
in the town of North Pole. You know who lives in the North Pole? We may even eat lunch at the Elf’s Den. They
have to do something when they’re off for the summer. Might even get some of that antler stew or
Mrs. Clause’s reindeer meatloaf. I know
that sounds somewhat morbid but it’s the cycle of life up here.
We
did stop at a local meat market on the way in the other day and sampled some of
their grass fed pork. We had pork chops. They were sure good. The gal that was
working the counter had moved up here from Florida. Not sure what she was thinking, but she fell
in love with area. She lives in the
woods, produces her own power with a diesel generator, heats her house with
wood and has 13 dogs. That’s what they
call “subsistence living” up here, just what it takes to survive, no frills. Now
that’s living folks. She said that the
temperature gets down to -50 and that she has to keep her car plugged in to
even get it started in the mornings. Hell, you would have to hook Sharon up to
110 volts to even get her thinking of getting out of bed. All it takes is a short in the electric blanket
and you are there.
We
toured downtown Fairbanks yesterday. Believe
me folks, it’s like what you see on the Alaskan Trooper. For those of you who have not indulged in
that series yet, it’s pretty condensed in a small area without many tall
buildings. Kinda like Denton Tx, before they build Texas Women’s University
with 2 grossly out of place skyscrapers.
Oh
yeah, today is pick up day for the parts for the motorhome. Whoopee! Don’t know
if I’ll replace the parts here or at the next stop at Denali. We are not
staying right at the park but a short distance away. We are there for 2 weeks. Some
of the families are flying up to spend a week with us. We are looking forward to
see Elizabeth, Jonathan and most of all Emorie. They will fly to Anchorage then
take the train to Denali. We are excited to see them. Scott and Amber will join us in Seattle when
we arrive back in the lower 48 sometime before the snow starts to fall.
You
do not run out of day light, so there is no excuse for not getting things done
up here.
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