Friday the 10th I had supper with Dawn (sister of Twila that I saw in Anchorage). It is amazing that one can see someone after 45+ years and still feel such a friendship.
9/10/16 Today I saw a VERY big moose that someone had killed in a utility trailer:
This is just the front of it. Hind end in back of trailer separate from this. I can’t imagine picking it up and lugging it out of the woods!
9/11/16 Today I had my first hiccup on this grand adventure: I have a very persistent cough and feel like I might have a temperature, but I don’t have a thermometer. When I cough, my hiatal hernia hurts! So I started taking Tylenol, cough suppressants and ate soup. It’s raining and cold outside, so I just stayed in my camper all day.
9/13/16 Went to the Tanana Valley Clinic to get checked out. Need some good meds and to get better so that I can be 100% for my upcoming Denali adventure. Yep, they gave me some good codeine cough syrup, so I will sleep REAL GOOD tonight!
9/14 Feeling much better!
9/15 Last day in Fairbanks. Interesting sight: seeing a dead moose being cut up right in the campground. They had a huge table and were cutting it up, wrapping it, labeling it and putting it into a couple of freezers that they had there, running off a generator. I’ve never seen a carcass cut up and I watched them for a while without getting grossed out.
In the afternoon, I did all the housekeeping things (grocery shopping, filled up the propane tank etc) so that I would be ready for the next long weekend at Denali. It is colder than when my son and I were there 3 weeks ago. A reminder: This second trip to Denali is for the Road Lottery on the 19th.
Here is information about the Road Lottery in case you are interested in what it is and it’s history: https://www.nps.gov/dena/planyourvisit/road-lottery.htm