On the road

Hi, from Chicken, Alaska!

Saturday, August 13, 2005, the time had finally come to embark on our historic trip to the Arctic Circle. We had mentioned the smoke in the air when we had arrived at Fairbanks. Well, we didn’t think it would be too bad, so we started our trek around 8 am. The air was quite smoky and as we traveled further, the smoke got thicker and thicker, and soon we had zero visibility. We both had our heads out of the windows trying to ensure that the vehicle stayed on the road and we were traveling less than five kms per hr, and hoped that no one coming from the opposite direction, would run into us. We soon came to the conclusion that this mission must be aborted and we turned around and drove back to a gravel pit where we had left the trailer. We were both very disappointed but it must have been fate that we didn’t go all the way to the Arctic Circle as we were rewarded on our drive from Fairbanks to Tok, with five moose sightings.