Smoky Fairbanks
Artic Shadow
Pitzed around Fairbanks; shopping, picking up a fishing license, etc. Fairbanks was extremely smoky and at times quite uncomfortable because of it; at present there are over 300 active fires in Alaska, with several big ones near the city. There has been considerably less precipitation this year than is normal and this has left the forests extremely dry and easily torched by random lightning strikes. If the wind blows in the wrong direction our eyes start burning. Spent an interesting afternoon at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, a museum dedicated to the natural, cultural and art history of Alaska.
We’ll Never Get Rich This Way
In 2003, when we were in Fairbanks, we went to a an old gold mine where the owners allow you to pan for gold, for a fee of course. We managed to recover a wee bit of gold which Arlyne had put into a pendant and wears constantly. We decided to go back to Dredge No 8 to pan for more gold and ended up getting $70 in gold flakes which Arlyne put into a new pendant.
Things were going too smoothly, thus something had to happen, which turned out to be a lost cap for one of my teeth. Fortunately, I found a dentist who could fabricate and install a new cap in one day, so we hung around Fairbanks for another day to get this taken care of.