Along with trying to deal with the situation of the broken spindle and how it will affect the rest of our trip, we've also been exploring Fairbanks.
Yesterday we went to Pioneer Park which one of the guidebooks referred to as Fairbanks' "guilty pleasure". It has little shops and trains to ride like a theme park and authentic Alaskan houses that can be visited just like Williamsburg.
We had ice cream, visited houses built for short people and got tie-dyed, batiked t-shirts that have gotten us compliments throughout Fairbanks. Then we shared nachos and apple crisp at Boston Pizza.
Today we checked out the georgeous vegetables (giant radishes, mammoth zuchinni) jams and baked goods at the Tanena Farmer's Market.
Then over to the Museum of the North at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. There we saw Blue Babe, the world's only mummified Ice Age steppe bison.
Excellent exhibits on Alaskan life and a really nice campus. Made us both wonder what it would have been like to go away to school.
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And, of course we had to go to Barnes and Noble and Walmart.
At the Walmart there were lots of RV's parked in the lot looking like they were there for the long haul. Most were unhooked, had their slides and awnings out and there were even a few grills and people seated in their lawn chairs observing the shoppers coming and going. A bit much. Mark said that if we ever boondocked like that, we'd do it by Barnes and Noble or an equally "upper class establishment:)
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