Hi! Good morning and good afternoon and all that to everyone. Well my mornings and afternoons have been to the 21 1/2 hours of sunlight that we had yesterday and today. Anyhow, after we went to bed around two 2 AM after the ball game ended around 1:15 AM wegot up at 1 PM and decided to hit someplace safe that we knew we liked. So we went to Starbucks and hung out here for a couple hours. Apparently drive-through because there’s nobody inside but there’s a whole bunch of people doing drive-through. It’s really kind of strange but we’re digging it cause their seats galore. The people are nice and I got a free refill of iced coffee which you can’t get anywhere else that I’ve been to. So we’re just mellowing out and then we’re gonna head to the museum of the north. I’ve been busy editing yesterday‘s blog posting and waiting for the videos to download. The Internet is very slow here, but at least it does work and we are enjoying our relaxation here. Well, we hung out at the Starbucks till 5:30 PM and realized we need to go to the museum of the north and check it out before it closes around 6:30 PM. Just realized that Kyle Schwarber hit two home runs in the same inning against the Mets in the third inning today. Last I saw they were leading 11–1. Hello well we enjoyed our stay At the Starbucks. Next, we went to the Museum of the North. This museum wasin a decidedly nicer area of Fairbanks. This is a place where the world famous bus from out in the wild will be stored in 2 to 3 years once they get funding and they do the renovations for it. So we’re a little bit early for that. That museum was pretty cool actually. The building is a cool architectural gem and with the really heavy looking clouds we got some really cool pictures of the building itself. Once we got in, we investigate the first floor, which was exhibits about the culture in the history of Alaska and the north in general. They got had to exhibits that were very scientific very granular as Mary likes to say. We then went to the second floor and they had one exhibit that talked about it addiction. That was really depressing but very eye-opening. The guy said that addiction deaths increased 45% between 2022 and 2023. That is fucked up! Mary then asked the ladies at the front desk what they recommend to go out to eat. They recommended a place called lemongrass. It was about an eight minute car right away. I was looking forward to eating Thai food for the first time in many moons. Well, the food and service did not disappoint. I had a tofu, green tofu, curry with avocado avocados and that was delectable and Mary really enjoyed her yellow curry with chicken. It was very nice atmosphere and the company that’s in charge of our Arctic Circle trip. We’re gonna take tomorrow at 9 AM. they’ve been in business for 30 years. They are very nice people there. It’s now 9:02 PM and we decided to check out the northern Alaska tour company. That’s that’s your organization that’s running our bus trip to the Arctic Circle. We drove down there in the misty old rain and it’s a very gloomy day and it’s the locations in a funky spot. It’s right next to the Fairbanks airport. It was a good thing. We tested out because it’s very strange. Mary went in to check the place out. The door is open, but nobody was working there so she used the ladies room very conveniently enough. Anyhow, we went across the street to the parking lot and they have a little envelope system, we put the money in along with your car information and deposit into this box so we took one of the envelopes and brought it back with us to our humble boat here call the Borealis in.
Good day everybody after not so great sleep. I got up with the alarm around 9:15 AM. Mary and I decided that we would eat at the conscious Café instead of eating at the Latitude 62 for breakfast so we drove up here instead of walking since we’re already packed and didn’t feel right totake out parking when we weren’t staying there anymore. So we went up and drove and parked at the pizza place and because there’s no other parking in the whole area you can’t really park here you pretty much have to walk because mostly you only park in place where is designated. Anyway we got the Sunrise sandwiches, which is basically a bagel sandwich. I had pesto and guac and Mary had one as well with tomato, pesto and spinach. Just when we finished eating, a whole bunch of people came in so it was really good that we came when we did. Period today is Friday so the weekend starting. I had mentioned before that memorial day weekend there was a line the whole time to get something to eat. Well that’s starting right now here as of 10:52 AM. The first group of pictures was all taken at the conscious café where we’ve enjoyed breakfast for 4️⃣ mornings in a row Yum Yum definitely good vibes and good food. anyhow, it’s now 11:38 AM. We just left the café and took care of mother nature now it’s time to pick up her car and drive 4 1/2 hours to Fairbanks. Wes is tracking me and noticed that we’ve been staying in the same spot for a few days and I updated him on our status. Good to know the friends care enough to keep an eye eye out on you. Anyhow, it is now four20 4:31 PM and we’re at a traffic jam about 40 miles outside of Fairbanks. Mary took a bunch of pictures that I’m gonna borrow from her that she took when we had mountainous terrain all around. Now it’s just rolling Hills and trees and we’re truly in the middle of nowhere. I barely have Internet coverage cause the pictures won’t download on this Blog and the other Blog isn’t really working. We stopped at a gas station that was six bucks a gallon then like 15 miles later I see gas for five dollars a gallon so we picked the wrong gas station, but who knew. Well, the stop was a really good stop because we got ice for our ice bag and got a couple glass of water and I got two Pepsi’s when I drank already and we’re heading for the homestretch to Fairbanks as soon as the police allow us to proceed. We end up waiting almost 40 minutes and once we got moving, we realize the extent of the road construction. I’ve never seen anything like this in my entire life a huge swap of dirt to the left and brand new highway being built on the right it was unbelievable. We had a drive-through a gravel road. This was about 40 miles outside Fairbanks. When we did arrive at Fairbanks, it’s the middle of nowhere and then the sprawl just shows up. You’re in the middle of nowhere next minute you’re in Fairbank. I had to go to the bathroom like nobody’s business. I took care of business an emergency, and then the man Davie showed us our hotel after we called him because he works and lives in there in the in the building. He has some some other gigs going on in the building. There’s like four or five apartments that are turned into lodging. So Mary and I got settled in and we found a diner nearby. Looks more like a family restaurant place and we had a chicken wings as a opener and then I had a Giro and she had a club salad with lots of meat, olives and cheese in it along with lettuce and peppers. It sounds 7:37 PM we’re gonna pay for the meal and head towards the baseball field. See what happens the reason we’re going to the baseball field. It’s the midnight baseball game. It’s a big deal here and there’s no tickets left, but we’re gonna see what happens. Well, we’re waiting in line and then we realized there’s a line for buying tickets and we have to wait for everyone else to come in to see if there’s tickets left. They’re 45 bucks each for general admission. As we were standing in the ticket line some women literally hand handed over Mary a ticket so she went and got a seat on the first base side and some dude wanted to sell his reserve seat ticket for 100 bucks and I declined because I wanna be in general mission. I’ll buy it for 75 but I just couldn’t do 100 cause that’s all my cash. It’s now 8:52 PM. They’re going to let us know around 915 or so if we can buy tickets straight up. Well lo and behold tickets were available. They opened up the gates and I got a ticket for the face price of $45 so I was very excited and I went to the first Bayside to run into Mary. I had a little trouble finding her but found her quickly enough, and we got seats at the first base line. Well, I could see why the first base side was not filling up as fast as third base side because the sun was glaring right at us right over this building. Turned out the sun sets kind of sideways and the sun was in our eyes until about the eighth thinning. But it wasn’t too bad thank God I had a baseball cap on. Ended up the Alaska team lost 5–3. There’s an interesting game they sang their Alaskan flag song in between submitting I think the seventh and stretch. They had kids run around the baseball field. That was kind of cute. Oh, in the beginning of the game after the Star-Spangled Banner and they had a flyover with jets. It was pretty impressive. I must say. They have two military basis nearby. That’s what someone told me while I was waiting in the line. This woman was waiting in the line with me said she moved from Indiana to Alaska drove there from there from Fairbanks. I had to cut through Canada sounded like an arch with trip. She said it was 4000 miles. That’s kind of a thing young people can get away with doing. It is very impressive. Anyway, the game ended after 1 PM 1 AM and we were really lucky. The hotel was literally right next to the field about a 10 minute walk. The mosquitoes were absolutely killing me. They were buzzing around and stuff. So tired that I crashed hard but it was well worth it.
Hi! Good morning and good afternoon and all that to everyone. Well my mornings and afternoons have been 
to the 21 1/2 hours of sunlight that we had yesterday and today. Anyhow, after we went to bed around two 2 AM after the ball game ended around 1:15 AM we
got up at 1 PM and decided to hit someplace safe that we knew we liked. So we went to Starbucks and hung out here for a couple hours. Apparently 
drive-through because there’s nobody inside but there’s a whole bunch of people doing drive-through. It’s really kind of strange but we’re 
digging it cause their seats galore. The people are nice and I got a free refill of iced coffee which you can’t get anywhere else that I’ve been to. So we’re just 
mellowing out and then we’re gonna head to the museum of the north. I’ve been busy editing yesterday‘s blog posting 
and waiting for the videos to download. The Internet is very slow here, but at least it does work and we are enjoying our relaxation here. Well, we hung out at the Starbucks till 5:30 PM and
realized we need to go to the museum of the north and check it out before it closes around 6:30 PM. Just realized that Kyle Schwarber hit two home runs in the same inning against the Mets in the
third inning today. Last I saw they were leading 11–1. Hello well we enjoyed our 
stay At the Starbucks. Next, we went to the Museum of the North. This museum wasin a decidedly nicer area of Fairbanks. This is a place where the world famous bus from out in the wild will be stored in 2 to 3 years 
once they get funding and they do the renovations for it. So we’re a little bit early for that. That museum was pretty cool actually. The building is 
a cool architectural gem and with the really heavy looking clouds we got some really cool pictures of the building itself. Once we got in, we investigate
the first floor, which was exhibits about the culture in the history of Alaska and the north in general. They got had to exhibits that were very scientific very 
granular as Mary likes to say. We then went to the second floor and they had one exhibit that talked about it addiction. That was really depressing but very 
eye-opening. The guy said that addiction deaths increased 45% between 2022 and 2023. That is fucked up! Mary then asked the ladies at the front
desk what they recommend to go out to eat. They recommended a place called lemongrass. It was about an eight minute car right away. I was 
looking forward to eating Thai food for the first time in many moons. Well, the food and service did not disappoint. I had a tofu, green tofu, curry with 
avocado avocados and that was delectable and Mary really enjoyed her yellow 
curry with chicken. It was very nice atmosphere and 
the company that’s in charge of our Arctic Circle trip. We’re gonna take tomorrow at 9 AM. they’ve been in business for 30 years. They are very nice 
people there. It’s now 9:02 PM and we decided to check out the northern Alaska tour company. That’s that’s your organization that’s running our bus trip to the Arctic Circle. 
We drove down there in the misty old rain and it’s a very gloomy day and it’s the locations in a funky spot. It’s right next to the Fairbanks airport. It was
a good thing. We tested out because it’s very strange. Mary went in to check the place out. The door is open, but nobody was working there so she 
used the ladies room very conveniently enough. Anyhow, we went across the street to the parking lot and they have a little envelope system, we put the money in along with your car information and deposit into this box so we took one of the envelopes and brought it back with us to our humble boat here call the Borealis in.
Good day everybody after not so great sleep. I got up with the alarm around 9:15 AM. Mary and I decided that we would eat at the conscious Café 
it for 75 but I just couldn’t do 100 cause that’s all my cash. It’s now 8:52 PM. They’re going to let us know around 915 or so if we can buy tickets straight up. Well lo and behold tickets were 
