Deadhorse, Alaska

This is the fancy camp at the Arctic Caribou Inn & RV camp. That big pipe we're parked next to is "bull rail". Has electricity wires running along it; trucks plug block heaters into it, so that they will start the next morning when it's coldThe dirt along the way has really accumulated
The local gas station; the pump is actually inside and you can watch it through the window. When you go inside you read the directions, go back out and put the "spill pad" under the car (sign says "use spill padunder truck; spills are expensive"), pump gas and go inside and swipe card. It's totally do-it-yourself; at $5.40 per gal. If yo!!!u want assistance, it costs $20!!!
The Arctic Caribou Inn....where we are parked in their RV camp next to the bull rail
A view from the road.....rugged mountains in the distance.
more rugged beauty on the way into Deadhorse; probably still 80 miles or so before Deadhorse because it got really "Nebraska-like" flat right before Deadhorse
a muskox we saw in the distance. Picture is not good because it was so far away. We did see another herd of 15 or so with calves in the distance a few more miles down the road. These things look like hairy cows w/ horns; they spend the whole year here....got a huge winter coat.

Thursday, June 26.

We'll be going on our tour of Prudhoe Bay at 10 am. That's the ONLY way to get to the oil fields.

I'll write a bit after we come back. We slept real well last night; had the windows all closed because of the dust; shades down so it was semi-dark in the camper. Wonderful night.

Until we "connect" again...