Chuck:
The scenery here is beautiful, crystal clear air, endless vistas of mountains, clear water streams winding through long valleys. I had breakfast with Kip & Jake then they were off on their motorcycles heading to Prudhoe. Betty & Bren drove me back about 30 miles to my start point for the day. More road work that will not allow bicycles, as before the driver of the pilot vehicle offers to load bike & rider in their pick-up, but the B’s came along while we were waiting and I hitched a ride with them. The highway between Coldfoot and Wiseman is great; relatively new and not excessively steep grades, the bad news is, this only lasts for about 20 miles.
Betty has arranged for us to stay in Wiseman. An old sourdough, Jim Lounsburg has a couple of cabins and wall tents available for rent. We are in a wall tent. 
Very nice, especially for a tent; a framed door and window, two double beds, lace curtains, Yukon stove, and lots of blankets. Bath facilities are in an adjacent cabin. They generate their own electricity with small windmills and store the power with battery banks. He has gas lines routed to the bath for an on-demand water heater and for gas lighting in both the cabin and wall tent. Betty & I cooked supper on their grill. Afterward, Jim showed us through his little homemade museum. He is a long time resident of the “North Country” and has been involved in lots of interesting activities like panning and mining, he knows many of the regions past political figures and has stories galore. His current project is preparing to host the local American Legion 4th of July celebration. This afternoon he went up onto a mountain behind here and brought back glacier ice to cool beer and other drinks. He expects over a hundred residents that come in from miles around for this annual event.
Tomorrow, we will drive to Prudhoe. The Bike portion of our trip has reached its northern most point. At first our goal was just to reach the Alaska border, then, we thought the end of the Alaska Highway in Delta Junction, Alaska. Later, we thought maybe Fairbanks, then, maybe the Arctic Circle or Prudhoe. Now we have decided; the Arctic Circle is just right. However, we will drive on to Prudhoe, so Betty and Bren can see it. Then we will return to Fairbanks and return to biking the Alaska Highway and connectors (nearly 2,000 miles) that we skipped over earlier.