Smoke in Delta Junction (Sunday-26th)

Just south of Fairbanks is the “North Pole.”  Seriously…the town is called that!  The streets have names like…“Candy Cane Lane.”  The street lights look like candy canes.  Of course there is a shop called the North Pole where Santa is.  You can sit on his lap year round and give him your wish list…as early as you like.

On our way to Delta Junction, we crossed a neat bridge and found the Alaskan pipeline again.  The mountains on the horizon, towards Delta Junction are very hazy.  Not a fog haze; but a smoke haze.  Almost 20,000 acres have burned since April. The high winds are hampering the control.

 Onto Tok again from there.  Not to camp;  but to get gasoline and propane for the motor home  and some fuel for Bill and I at Fast Eddie’s.  The parking lot is always full.  It may be a combination of having good food and being 

the only restaurant in town. 

It’s amazing when you’re traveling in places which seem to be in the middle of nowhere.  Then…all of a sudden you see a person riding a bike or riding a horse.  You wonder…where in the world did they come from and where are they going?   This guy seemed to be bringing a lost horse back home, wherever that may be. 

 Bye to Alaska and hello again to Canada.  Trees and plants have blossomed out a lot since we were through here just a few weeks ago.  Wildflowers are painting their colors along the edges of the highway. Even though spring is in the air, there is still evidence of winter hanging onto some of the mountains and rivers.  

We’re in the Yukon again and camping at that campground we stayed at on our way up to Alaska.  It is the one we took our selfie by the lake with the ice near the shoreline.  No ice today with all the nice, warm weather they have had the past few weeks.  A nice thing at this park is that there is an “unlimited” amount of firewood provided for campers to burn.  So we burned our share while consuming some 

Old Fashions…which “are limited.”