Tarakin
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Fairbanks is beautiful at this time of year. Not cold at all. We spent four months there in the summer of '05 and fell in love with the place...it's beautiful and the people are amazingly open and friendly. The 22 hours of sunlight at the solstice is interesting...they have the midnight sun festival at the solstice every year. And then when it gets late enough in the summer for the place to actually start having night again, when there's decent solar activity you can see the northern lights. Get away from town and you can HEAR the northern lights.
Head south down the Richardson Highway towards Anchorage or Valdez and you see the mountains and some glaciers, and some beautiful rivers and waterfalls. Head north toward the Circle on the Steese Highway and you see the gold dredges and their tailings piles, and hills and itty bitty provinicial towns that haven't been touched by anybody but their inhabitants and the occasional traveler in decades. On both highways you travel along the pipeline; you can stop at parking pullouts and walk over to the service road, and walk along the pipeline to your heart's content.
In short, I want to be there because I miss the place. If there was any place we ever visited during those eighteen months on the road that we'd want to move to, it's Fairbanks. Cost of living is ridiculously expensive up there though (except for gasoline), and while we're sure we could deal with the cold of the winter we aren't sure we could deal with the 3 hour days between November and January. So we stay put.
Oh, now I understand... I didn't know it is so beautiful there. Lets meet in Fairbanks.



