Day 19: July 22, 2016 Fairbanks, AK to Valdez, AK


Depart: Fairbanks, AK
Arrive: Valdez, AK     (365 miles)

We packed up our truck the night before so we would not wake up anyone at Virgils and could just take off bright and early. I plugged in our cooler and filled it full with our cold items of food. When I went to plug my phone into the truck, I found out the Batteries in the truck was dead. Remember when I said we were trying to slip out and not wake anyone. Well every time Jeff would use his new handy dandy devise to charge the Batteries, the horn would blow. We did get a charge from Virgil, but after an hour of running the truck, we still got a Battery lite on the dash. So to make sure all was well we went to the Chev dealer in town and they managed to get us in. They cleared the alarm and all others that came up do to the battery being drained. We managed to get on the road by 1pm.
Before Truck was Good to Go:




After:

These are pictures that I took along the way. We did see a Mama Moose and her baby, plus a lone huge moose on the road to Valdez. The drive was really beautiful and the weather was ok. Not raining!
Mama and Baby Moose:





Pipe Line:




I took a lot of pictures, but they do not do justice to the beauty we saw. The closer we came to Valdez, the more majestic the mountains became.

*ON THE ROAD AGAIN!



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