Continuing on north.......

As we continue north on the Cassier Highway, the terrain keeps changing all the time. We go from rolling hills to steep cliffs, from snow on the ground to sandy soil that looks like the desert.  It was sad to go thru miles and miles of land that was burned in recent years from forest fires.  It will probably take a hundred years to erase the damage.

The wild life is getting more and more real all the time.  Check out this sign at the entrance to a place we stayed at.

Keep aware of your surroundings

The dogs are actually turning out to be a good alarm system for bears.  They could sense something in the woods before I could see anything.  They started barking and I heard sticks breaking out in the brush.  Sometimes when we are on a walk, they will refuse to go any farther, so we turn around.

A few days go we were in Tok where we left the trailer for a few hours and drove to Chicken, Alaska.  This place is really a hoot!  It was once a gold rush town.  There is a gift shop, a saloon, and a cafe.  There had just been a film crew there from the Discovery Channel filming.  There is a real possibility there will be a Alaska reality show about Chicken next season.

Chicken Alaska

The saloon will seat about 20 people and there are baseball caps and panties covering all the walls and ceiling.  Kind of hard to walk around because the floor has about a 20 degree slope to it.






Why is it called Chicken you ask??  When it was founded, the miners wanted to name it ptarmigan, but none of them could spell it.  So they just settled for Chicken.

The road to Chicken Alaska



This morning we saw six moose along the road to Fairbanks.  If we slow down they run off into the bush.  It just keeps getting warmer the further north we go.  It will be 76 here today and in the 80's later in the week.  Who would have guessed.  Oh , and the mosquitoes are getting bad!!!