Well, we slept some and had a good meal since my last entry. We keep talking about yesterday and how important our time in Barrow and on the Dalton Highway had been. We keep remembering all we saw and experienced yesterday
"Beanie, ya know, if you had been willing to fly on home, we would have missed something that not many 78 year old ladies get to do. We wouldn't have grown so close to Juan and Mary. So I guess it was a good thing, Beanie."
She agreed. She went to Barrow on a mission...not just to be a regular tourist but to be where her husband had been so many years ago. She did that!! "Annie, you won't believe this. Juan was right. I can fly home. We weren't tourists, we briefly actually lived in Barrow and on the Dalton Highway too. I want to be a tourist in Alaska some day; there is so much to see here. But not now. Annie, I am ready to fly home." I agreed with all she said. And I looked at this friend of 70 years and was so proud of her. So I will leave you with a few more pictures.
Another picture of Yukon River, which we especially loved.
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Wooden plank bridge across Yukon River
If you look closely on the left, you can see an isolated airstrip??Wha?
This is at the southern end of Dalton highway.
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Sometimes we would go a long way without seeing traffic. Then it would get real busy.
Wandering across the Arctic.
Thaw lakes on the tundra. from melted snow.
This is a tor, an isolated piece of granite sticking up from the tundra! We saw several of these.
Another Tor.
All over again I remember what a wonderful time we had way up yonder in Alaska by the Arctic Ocean.
ReplyDeleteBeanie and I were both 78 at the time, and not many women our age get the chance to do something so wonderful and exciting.