Day 15 was kind of bouncy.
It is the section of the highway that they have a lot of trouble with
frost heaves in the winter and are repairing them all summer. Some of them they did a good job of
repairing, others not so much so. There
was two stretches where they were completely rebuilding the entire road for
about a 10 mile stretch. Those we had to
wait for a pilot car and drive the dusty gravel at 20 mph.
The view of the Elias Mountains was great. The range of mountains has 13,000 to 15,000
foot mountain peaks.
We saw moose today.
The first one was kind of camera shy, and laid down when we stopped the
car and would not get back up. But the
second one we spotted a couple of minutes down the road let us take some
pictures of her.
We got to Tok, AK at 3:30 and found a campground. We fueled up the truck and washed it. Diesel was $4.429 per gallon. Dad volunteered to cook and took us to Fast Eddies
Restaurant where we each had a dinner salad and shared a large pizza. We were eating pizza, so of course we had a
couple of beers.
The clocks fell back another hour when we entered
Alaska. We are now 3 hours behind Iowa
time. Everyone was tired from the bumpy
ride (and beer), so we all went to bed early.
We will make it to Fairbanks tomorrow.
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