Day 7: Leaving Fairbanks for Denali

Hey everyone, we left Amy & Doug’s sweet cabin in North Pole just outside of Fairbanks yesterday. If there was one thing I had to tell you about Amy Komar is that she doesn’t mess around when it comes to a good meal! One of the mornings she made us some really awesome pancakes and bacon, and then for dinner she whipped up some Moose Fajitas – a little bit of texmex, a little bit of Alaska, and a whole lot of Komar. It was really great seeing her and I recommend you buy one of her paintings!

On the way to Denali we stopped off at good ole’ Gold Dredge Number 8, I self diagnosed myself as having a severe to moderate case of gold fever. There is gold in them thar Alaskan hills. Seriously, we took a tour of this ancient giant tunneling gold digger thing that looked like an enormous rusted transformer. Of course I challenged Alison to a gold panning contest... I tried my hardest and collected a whopping $7.95 in gold flakes but Alison barely beat me with $8.50. We are now brainstorming on what we will do with our gold dust dreams, the good news is I’m just that much closer to those golden vampire teeth I’ve always wanted.











It was also memorial day, I snapped this picture of the American flag during the mining tour. I’m not some super American rah rah patriot type of guy, but both of my grandfathers did fight in WWII and as I get older I can say I appreciate what they did for me more and more, regardless of my personal thoughts on any current military situation.






Also, after two servings of moose, we actually saw our first alive one! YESSSSSSS