Here we go again – horrible road construction once again,
but we did enjoy the beautiful flowers along the way. One of the more amusing things we have noticed all along the roads in Alaska are the
caution signs. We can’t imagine that we would ever see “Road
Construction Zone – reduce speed to 65 mph.”
Amazing!!!!
We arrived in Fairbanks to enjoy a beautiful campground
right on the Chena River. Our first stop
was the Walgreens pharmacy. Since we have been gone so long, we needed to
refill our prescriptions which turned into more of the problem than it should
have been due to our medical insurance deciding that I only need l month at a
time all of a sudden. After calls to the
insurance company and our doctor – all was taken care of satisfactorily. We knew that we were going to be going into
Canada for an extended period of time and wouldn’t be able to fill our
prescriptions there. This was in addition to the problems we had encountered in Anchorage.
Prescription refills being taken care of - we took off for
Pioneer Park. It’s Alaska’s only Pioneer
Themed Park and very interesting. It’s
Gold Rush town that has been rebuilt/moved into the middle of Fairbanks. There is a wonderful museum where we found
another wonderful quilt. Since I’m a
member of the Emblem Club – a group that was originally all women who are
members to Elks – I was thrilled to see a quilt block done by the Emblem
President.
Quilt
Emblem Block
The next day in Fairbanks we visited the amazing Museum of
the North. The museum is located on the
campus of the University of Alaska.
Several people we had met along the way told us it was a must see and
how right they all were. The displays of
bead work were out of this world and a jacket made out of seal intestine took
the prize in my book. The jacket is only
worn for special occasions and it was evident why – the stitching was
fabulous. I also loved the sewing kit
complete with a ulu. The other thing I
found interesting was the kospuks, a native dress that is now quite fashionable. One of the shops in Pioneer Park was doing a
land-house business making custom kospuks.
Not exactly something I’d wear anyplace but home.
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