Today is an R & R day. A chance to clean the vehicle both inside and out and to put our heavy winter clothes into the carrier on top of the Tiger - we anticipate that they will not be needed again. The temperature in Fairbanks today was 75, and this looks like it will persist for most of the next week.

I am going to let most of this entry belong to Nina and her comments on the Deadhorse leg of our trip.

One interesting tidbit of information I picked up on a TV commercial for Alaska today. The oil pipe line was built with a lot of zigs and zags in it to allow for expansion and contraction due to temperature variation and ground movement. The oil that flows through the pipe is hot. When the crew allowed the first hot oil to flow, the pipe lengthened 4 feet per mile. The line is roughly a 1000 miles long so the thing got 4000 ft longer.!!

Nina forgot to mention that the Dalton did, in some part live up to its reputation it is remote, narrow, busy with trucks, it does have soft shoulders, high embankments, steep hills, lengthy gravel surface with sharp rocks, potholes and we encountered clouds of dust, slick mud, deep snow, and ice but thankfully not a flooded roadway.