Chuck:
Last evening, the grand-kids flew off to Virginia to be with their Dad and Suz flew home to Florida. We are going through “Empty Nest” trauma all over again. This morning we departed River’s Edge RV Park and Fairbanks for the last time. For now anyway, we like Fairbanks, maybe someday? We have been poking around this area so long it almost feels like home; we pass Fort Wainwright and Eielson AF Base then North Pole on our way to Delta Junction which is the northern terminus of the Alcan Highway (Alaska Highway). This starts the remaining portion of our Key West to Alaska saga. The Alcan is listed as about 1425 miles: Dawson Creek to Delta Junction. The actual distance seems to vary; the original military road was a bit longer then as improvements are made the distance shrinks, also there is a variance between the highway survey length and what vehicles actually measure. Not a problem, I will pedal away and record my distance when I finish and that will be official.
We arrived in Delta Junction in late afternoon and decided to knock out a few miles since it would be light until about midnight. The plan is to dry camp in downtown Delta Junction. We parked on a gravel lot adjacent to the town mall. The plan is for Betty to wait about an hour then come to pick me up and we will return to our camp spot. It was good to be riding again, the road was mostly flat and I breezed along. Betty got “occupied” and I was at the 23 mile point when she caught me. She had seen four moose on the way to get me.