Remember those signs on the highways saying you have to have chains or snow tires after October 1st? Well, everyone in Alaska was saying that snow was coming soon, they could smell it in the air. So I knew I needed to skeedaddle back to the lower 48 before I encountered snow and bad roads.
So today I woke up at the crack of dawn and said goodbye to the Filardi’s and Rutters and got on the road. Although there is a road that goes straight east to Tok, it is mostly gravel and not a good idea for this time of year. So the route was north to Fairbanks, then east and south to Delta Junction and Tok, where I finally met up with the Alaska Highway (Alcan) going east into Canada.
The sun coming up on the way to Fairrbanks.
I saw a red fox at mile 299 near Nenana!
At Birch Lake, which is about 50 miles south of Fairbanks. This bench made me think of one on Lake Yarina in Peru. As I sat here, I could hear shots off in the distance. I had seen many hunters trucks parked along the road.
More information about Birch Lake:
http://www.lakelubbers.com/birch-lake-675/
http://www.silverfoxlodge,com
North of Delta Junction, the Alaska pipeline crosses the Tanana River. Just a few weeks ago, I saw it near the Arctic Circle and Fairbanks.
https://alaska-highway.org/alaska-pipeline/
Sunset near the Alaska/Canada border: 
At around 7 pm, I crossed into Canada and about 20 miles east, stopped for the night at Beaver Creek, Yukon. Beaver Creek is nothing great to look at; just a couple of gas stations and seedy hotels and a raggedy campground. But there is nothing else to speak of for miles, so that was it. The campground has electric and water hookups. The convenience store/laundry/gas station is a dump. It looks like the people there never cleaned anything or picked anything up. Dirty dishes, half-finished food sitting around, scraps of paper/receipts just litter the floor. But all I needed to do was sleep.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_Creek,_Yukon
http://beavercreekrvpark.com/index.html Beggars can’t be choosers.