June 25, 2013

More from "Chicken, AK"  … Went over to the Chicken Saloon - the hats  are stapled to the ceiling!! HUNDREDS of them!  We forgot to take one of ours. bummer….  

Local Residents between Bar and Sandwich shop: 

Chicken Mercantile Emporiam -with ANTHING pertaining to chickens that you could POSSIBLY want or need (or not need….)

Chicken Post Office - for the (population of 23 in summer, 7 in winter..)  residents of Chicken…

Sign for the city Limits  

 The Chicken Loop takes maybe … um… 5 minutes, that is if a dog or chicken crosses the road and you have to wait for it! LOL!

A Gold Dredge.. Rusty thing that Den crawled over, drooled over and informed lots of the onlookers as to what was missing and what was original…. he had been out to see the one at Dawson City and THAT coupled with is knowledge of the machinery he ran when he was a quarry boss at the gravel pit 30 years ago, was of great interest to him!  

( I got to read all afternoon!!!!)

Midnight sunset out our back window! Stunning! 

TG and Friend… He wanted one of those Golden eggs…. did not happen..

June 26… Left Chicken for Tok (rhymes with "poke") and stopped at a REALLY great gift shop, explored it and had our lunch in the camper across from the shop in a nice park… and then on up towards Delta Jct.

Stopped at the Delta Meat and Sausage shop and got several pkgs of buffalo, elk and deer sausage, VERY good! We had samples of all before we decided.  Den had seen the ad in Milepost book! LOL~

Dry river bed on the way to Delta Jct

TG and Friends with 2 Prehistoric Pteridactyl skeeters…in Downtown Delta Jct. 

End of Alcan Hwy Milepost 1422

Forest fire on the way to Delta Jct.

Pretty scary to see since we were heading that way! but we did get to Delta Jct safely and met our 'neighbors', slide in truck camper from Ottumwa, Iowa, and a couple with a motorcycle and small trailer - I mean SMALL! but that thing folded out to be a queen sized bed and dressing space! I could not believe it!!  Very nice folks from Michigan!  Forgot to take a pic of our campground… We stayed at Smith's Green Acres in D.Jct.  $34.00 a nite - water and electric.  TREES!  

June 27, 2013

Before we pulled out of Delta jct this morning, the owner came up to our camper and remembered that we were heading for Fairbanks, and he told us about the fires over THAT way that people were kind of fleeing from, so we decided to change our trip and go down to Valdez first and then do that Western loop later - basically just changed our direction to lower area first instead of F-banks first… SO, we headed southwest towards Valdez.

TG with the Snow capped mts.

Along the way to Glenallen on the Richardson Hwy -

Ice still on the river north of Glenallen

We in a State Park tonight, with no services - very quiet, wooded and pretty flat - did not unhook - but if we HAD, the skeeters would have carried our TRUCK away! LORD… really bad.. Forgot to take a pic - did not want to lose ALL my blood to those suckers!!!!!  

Finally in Valdez and have GREAT wifi!  So these are late in posting but will show the next batch in a new post!