27 May – Coldfoot to Fairbanks

The sun never set last night.  Our camp site is surrounded by mountains and I could see the sun hitting the peaks of the mountains.

The one thing we didn’t see last night was bears.  As I said yesterday, this camp site is regularly visited by bears as evidenced by paw prints, etc.

We had a nice hot cup of coffee and decided to break camp and eat breakfast in Coldfoot.

The Coldfoot stop is just about 1/2 way between Fairbanks and Deadhorse, and its the only stop, so guess what, Coldfoot is a nightly hive of activity as truckers stop in for the night.  The breakfast can be bought off the menu of they have a modest buffet.

After filling up the tank ($5.89 / gallon) we opted for the buffet, it was a sunshine warm morning so we sat out side on their patio and ate our breakfast.

We hit the road again and time went fast. The only activity on the roadside this morning was a fast moving Moose wanted to play chicken with me.  He was walking along side the road and when he heard us coming he turned, looked, and then wondered up into the bush.
Farther south, the Dalton passes over the Yukon River.  They sometimes use barges to float equipment up and down the Yukon during the thaw.

 

We got into Fairbanks about 3pm.  The first order of business was to find a car wash.  The Toyhouse was covered in mud, so it took a couple passes with the pressure washer to get most of it off. It probably weighs about 500 lbs less also.

We drove around Fairbanks looking for the Walmart that we had visited on the way up.  We needed to resupply a couple things and decided just to spent the night in the Walmart lot (At most of their stores they allow RVs to spend the night in their lot)

Although the sun does set in Fairbanks, it doesn’t get dark, so, basically, we haven’t seen a dark night in almost a week 🙁

Tomorrow we’ll start heading south  on the Alaska Highway.

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