Fairbanks

6/29/09
Fairbanks is a great little city of about 80,000, although it seems such smaller and folks are friendly. The next few days were gloriously sunny again, enabling us to take a wonderful paddle-boat cruise on the Discovery III down the Tanana and Chena Rivers visiting Susan Butcher’s kennel and watching a demonstration of a team of

Huskies. She won the Iditarod 4 out of 5 years, a grueling 1300 mile sled dog race across frozen Alaska. We also visited an Athabascan Indian fish camp and village learning about native culture and subsistence living from the land. We also took in the Museum of the North at the University of Alaska which was very informational and well done.