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After we'd been to Chena and stayed the night in Fairbanks (including an hour or two in the native bar opposite the hotel- and the resulting hangovers next day) it was time to head back to Anchorage. Via the lovely town of North Pole, home of the Santa Claus house. I now have a great pic of myself sitting on Santa's knee, and because I wa s so good and didnt cry, mrs Claus herself gave me a candy cane! Oh dear...
The drive back to anchorage was awesome. We stopped every 5 minutes to photograph things- the oil pipeline, giant mountains, frozen rivers, herds or caribou (Erich and I: "Look at the caribou! they're so pretty". Delmar:"look at the caribou! I'm so hungry.") Eventually, like at 5pm, it got too dark to see the scenery and I kept nodding off, but we did stop once more so I could walk on a frozen lake. One question: when everything else around is covered in snow, how do lakes stay clean? Erich just showed me photos of the parts I missed when it was dark, and I can see I'm going to have to come back for summer.
We made it home by 9pm, dropped the eskimo at his condo and crashed into bed. Today is a quiet, lazy day...

Oh and photos will come once I get home and have sorted them all.
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