Hey there again. I'm back from the wilds of the north. It was another good trip but 16 days on the road, please, I'm exhausted!! I left on Wednesday to head south and I started getting sick. I felt like the bus had run over me. I couldn't tell if it was a bad cold or the start of the flu. Every mile I was getting worse and the pressure headache I had was horrible. Evert time we stopped for a break, a couple of my passengers kept asking if I was ok. They could tell I was getting sick. When I got to Coldfoot another tour driver gave me some Airborne. I took some that night and the next morning and felt a ton better. I'm fine now. No idea what it was, just glad I'm not sick.
That turned out to be my last trip north for the summer. I was supposed to go again on the 10th but things got switched up and I'm not complaining. I was changed to another trip that is a cakewalk compared to the Prudhoe trip. It will be a good way to end the summer.
The trip north was the best trip I've had all summer, possibly in all time I've been involved in tourism. The group gelled really well, it was as if they all were from the same town and traveled together all the time. There was also a running joke the whole tour and that made it fun. It gave me an energy boost that I definitely needed this late in the season.
It is definitely late fall up north. All the leave have changed, and a lot have already fallen off. It's crazy. Here in Fairbanks there's still a lot of green. It's weird after being up north for two weeks where all is yellow and the temp has been 35 to be here where there's still a lot of green and it was 70 when I got in yesterday! I'm not complaining!!
Even though I'm enjoying the last bit of summer up here I'm looking forward to the winter. I bought season tickets to Nanooks hockey this winter! I'm excited for hockey to start! It's funny, I've never really been in to hockey before. My friend Kirk and I went to see the Vancouver Canucks a couple of times and I had fun but never got into much more than that. Now I'm hooked and can't wait for the season to start.
I suppose that's it for today. I'm just beat. Thankfully I don't work tomorrow. I'm hoping that I don't have to work until my last tour on Tuesday. We'll see.
The pics are from my last trip north. It was amazingly beautiful and the pics do not do it justice.
3 comments:
What gorgeous country. I love the second picture with it's symbol of civilization. The Stop sign.
Do the caribou heed it?
Cheers~
Thanks for sharing another batch of beautiful pictures! That one with the caribou crossing the road is very interesting. Hope that you get some good rest and be ready for the all-dark winter!
Can you figure out some way to keep your Governor up there? Thank you!
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