24th Rest Day Fairbanks / 25th Fairbanks to Valdez 07/2010

The 24th Rest day and a sleep in , we were going to go out to Cheana Springs , but when I inquired how far away it was (60miles) we thought bugger that and went to town instead . Town is not like a town in NZ , it is more of a "park and buy" type (meaning that it is spread out every where and not concentrated to a small area , the shopping that is ), I guess with it being so cold and dark for a lot of the year nobody goes walking around shopping .

The only incident was when we went to get on the bus , as we walk on a went to pay the lady says "you free Seniors Citizens free" , Well i looked at her and with a look of who you callen Senior Cits bitch we payin and went to give her the money . But she say "hey you don't have to pay you senior Cits". With that it was either me gettin my car licence out or gettin a free ride , but i tell you i felt like Sayin ,look here bitch we an't no SC ok .

It was a big day in town as it was the Annual Rubber Duck race , all of Fairbanks was there I reckon . They pay $10 for a Rubber duck and they throw them in the river and the first one to cross the line wins and the owner $10,000 .

That nite we went to a Concert at the Uni where we were stayin , it went for 2 hrs and was 2 guys 1 with Banjo and the other guy with a Harmonica . It was bloody great , man could he blow that thing ( I thing i will give up the Didgeedoo and take up the Harmoica.

25th

We were to go to Tok today and then on to Chicken and Dawson City the next day , but the road to Dawson has been washed out , so we decided to come on down to Valdez for 2 days and then hopefully the road will be open so we can get through .

It was a long day today (595kms) but the road was great, fast with bugger all traffic . When we left Fairbanks it was sunny and when we arrived in Valdez it just started to rain and pretty cold . We rode past beauiful lakes , rivers and through beautiful mountains with glaciers every where as in the photo (Worthington Mile Glacier) which was very close to the road .

Photos

Ruth at the Rubber Duck races

Passing through a town called North Pole , just south of Fairbanks

Us at the end of the Alaskian Highway

And a shot of the start of the Mountains

Hey im gunna ring that bus company and tell them WE AIN'T NO f@#KIN Senior Citizens , da Bitch I hate her .

And to the rest of the people that we have came into contact with I must say they have been just so friendly and interested and willing to help so thanks to all those people that we have run into .