Category: Fairbanks, Alaska

Over the last couple of days we’ve traveled from Healy to Fairbanks and had a look around that city, then continued on back to Tok, where we stayed last night. We arrived at Golden Heart Park in Fairbanks just before 11:00 am on Friday. This statue is called The...

Yesterday the people in my group had a somewhat different day than I did. While they traveled to Denali National Park in a glass-domed railway car, I went ahead with the bus. We don’t normally do early starts on these tours, but there are two – we had to...

Yesterday was our day to explore Fairbanks. This was my 1-bedroom apartment at the Wedgewood Resort. This was the view from my apartment yesterday at 03:29, half an hour before sunrise. There’s lots of interesting stuff to look at on the walk over to the restaurant, which is at...

There’s been lots of variety the past couple of days, touring Fairbanks and then making our way to Denali National Park by train.We began the tour of Fairbanks with a stop at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Museum of the North, a look at the Trans Alaska Pipeline...

The sign above the Trans Alaska oil pipeline interpretive site says “Canada my ass, it’s Alaska’s Gas!” – that’s one of the slogans used by the Alaskan Independence Party. It refers to the current controversy about building a natural gas pipeline down the Alaska Highway, which will require paying...