Today we extended our stay here at the River’s Edge RV Park for two more days. There’s a lot of stuff to do here in Fairbanks.
We found the local Walmart nestled between Lowes and Home Depot. The Walmart is being remodeled, but the storefront is being designed to look like the old trading posts instead of the traditional Walmart storefront. Really neat.
From there we went to the Alaska Pipeline visitor’s center and got a peek at part of the 800 mile long Alaska Pipeline. That was very interesting.
Then we went by the local KFC and got a traditional fried chicken dinner. We had talked about doing that before while up here, but decided then we could get that back home, but by now we were ready for some back home food. It was good for a change.
After that we went out to the house of Mary Shields, the highlight of the day! She is the first woman musher to complete the Iditarod race, which she did in 1974. She much prefers recreational mushing, which she still does to this day. She has a tent with a small wood stove in it and says she is very comfortable in it, even in minus 40 degree weather. Mary Shields is also the very first musher Barbara ever had personal contact with, back in 1996. (Mary had sent Barbara some get well gifts after she had surgery.) Mary put on a sled dog demonstration for the Riverboat cruise which we took in 1993 as part of a cruise tour we did. Barbara has been hooked on sled dogs since then, but the contact in 1996 really started it all. The trip to her home was a very thrilling evening.
High temp: 71
Low temp: 49
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