Last Day!! Seemed way to fast but I guess that’s because it was so action packed and exciting with so much to do and see.
Interesting for the past few days the sun doesn’t set until after 11:00 at night and rises before 3:00 in the morning but during that 4 hours of nightfall its not dark and actually still light enough you could play tennis or golf.
We had to check out of our hotel by 11:00 in the morning and our flight wasn’t until 9:30 at night. So we decided to kill some time with our new friends Dave & Kathy and take the shuttle into downtown Fairbanks. Fair banks only has a population of 30,000 and the temperature range is from -70 degrees in winter and 100 degrees in summer. Some tough people, every car has a cord coming out the front for an engine heater. Walked around downtown, visited the Morris Thompson Cultural Center and found a good place for lunch called Saltys.
Went to the visitor center and Nancy bought a $20.00 dog booty. This will be matched with a dog and his musher before the “Yukon Quest” sled dog race which is between Fairbanks and White Hope in the Yukon Territory. Happened to be the Number 88 ticket (lucky – right) . They took our email to be able to track the race and our musher & dogs!! Good luck No. 88!!