It feels good to be drafting an update in real time.
Spent a good part of the day yesterday taking advantage of the good WiFi available in the McKinley Lodge lounge. Speed was good enough to post pictures without error messages or time outs. Yea!!
This morning after baggage pickup, we checked out of the room and moved to the lobby to finish bringing the blog up to date. Got done just before we loaded buses at 1400,
We headed north towards Fairbanks, gradually descending from about 1500 feet at the resort to 446 feet in Fairbanks. The lower elevations brought even more yellows and golds in the aspens along the road.
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| Swivel-head passengers catching the sights along our route to Fairbanks |
We stopped for a rest break at Nenana, known for wagering on the date and time of the annual ice breakup on the Nenana River and, depending on weather, in some years for being milepost #1 of the Iditarod Race.
After our break we loaded up and listened to our driver spin tales of the wilderness all the way to our hotel.
These transfer days are the slow days of our tour. Travel with Alan tries to make them as interesting as possible but there's no getting around the necessity of transporting a large group of people from one main attraction to the next. Nansea has worked with our drivers to provide interesting stops along the way to break up the transfers and the slow days let us older people recuperate from the busy days at the main attractions.
Tomorrow's a big day so we took it easy today.
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