Day 13, Found us at the Fairbanks, Alaska airport to join our group for our bus tour to the Arctic Circle. Twenty four of us piled onto a 26 passenger coach and headed north to the Dalton Highway.
The Dalton Highway is a rough, mostly dirt and gravel road built by the Alaska Pipeline folks and end in Prudhoe Bay, the northernmost oil field. This is the highway featured in the television series, “Ice Highway Truckers”.
Our first stop was Joy Alaska, a mercantile store started in the 1950’s.
Here we were urged to use the “facilities” because it would be two and a half hours until our next rest stop. These were original old fashioned “out houses”.
Ah, the aroma!
Next stop was lunch at Yukon River Camp where we had lunch and on our return trip to Fairbanks, dinner.
Once again, you can’t tell a book by it’s cover because both lunch sandwiches and our dinners were outstanding!
Scenery along the way included mountains, glacial plain, and lots of pipeline.
Finally, we reach the Arctic Circle!
The trip lasted from 6:30 a.m. until 10:45 p.m. and I want to tell you that’s a long, long bus ride! That is why the blog is being written this morning instead of last night.
Tomorrow, we are off south to Anchorage.
Babs Says: (To the tune of Yankee Doodle)
Frank & I went way up north
Riding in a green bus
Then we saw the Arctic Circle
And the mosquitoes did devour us.
Arctic Circle here we are
Arctic Circle northern
Got a sore butt from the bumps
On the highway Dalton.
We rode and rode two hundred miles
And never saw a Reindeer
Just tracs, rivers, big trucks, and bugs
Picture proves that we’ve been here.
Arctic Circle here we go
Arctic Circle good-bye
We came to see your splendor
Now we wonder why?
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ReplyDeleteWe sang the Arctic Circle Doodle Dandy song aloud yesterday. It brought a tear to Lisa's eye - that's poetic talent :)
ReplyDeleteWhy is there a red carpet in front of the Arctic Circle sign? Kinda goofy.