Friday, June 19: Leaving Talkeetna to Fairbanks de

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 not 852. They’re gonna let us know around 915 or so if we can buy tickets straight up.