After 3 weeks, finally in Alaska......

 Today is July 19th, and we arrived in Fairbanks AK on Monday, and plan to stay for 5 to 7 days.  We have an appointment with a RV repair facility on Thursday to check out the 12v electrical problems.  However, just for the heck of it, today I tried the stabilizer jacks, and they worked just fine.  Went back and disconnected the temporary wiring, reinstated the original wire, and everything works great.  I just switched the refrigerator to gas, and am waiting for it start beeping….hasn’t yet.  So…..is what happened just a freak occurence, or should I worry about it happening again?  Also, should I keep the appointment?  I just know if I do, they’ll tell me “we can’t do a thing unless you can make the problem happen again”..

We spent Sunday night at Tok Alaska…pronounced “toke”.  Went up to the welcome center, and learned that the town is named for a Husky that was the mascot of an Army Engineering Group ,helping to build the Alaska Highway.  Interestingly enough, the dog’s best friend was a young black bear that he kind of grew up with.  There were some pictures of the bear and dog roughousing.

The roads improved greatly as soon as we crossed the Alaska state line.  They seem to know how to handle the permafrost heaves much better than the Canadians….also might be a case of financial problems.

We had constant problems with the frost heaves after we left the Kalane Lake area of the Yukon.  They usually post little red flags up ahead so you can slow down, but sometimes not soon enough and you crash into this bottomless swale, and the front end of the Rv  cracks as it comes up on the other side.  I can’t believe we haven’t broken a spring, or something worse.  Also, some sections where they have tried to level the swales, they are filled and covered with loose gravel.  They wait a year until they black top over the repair, and when you meet an oncoming vehicle, it will likely send a few speeding gravel directly toward your windshield, thus the term “Alaska tatoo”.