Scenes From the Road, Part 2

Talkeetna Mountains, along the east horizon while driving north through Denali National Park

Talkeetna Mountains again

Tanana (TAH'-na-nah) River bridge at Nenana (neh-NA'-na)

Tanana River, looking east from the bridge

Museum of the North, on the Univ. of Alaska - Fairbanks campus

The picture postcard view of the Museum, from the front lawn

Jade boulder weighing 3,550 pounds - the surface is nearly waist high

A 10,000 year old wooly mammoth femur (note sign which reads, "Please touch")

Rifles and shotguns of the Alaska frontier

More long guns from the early days

A remarkably docile group of grizzlies

5,495 pound copper nugget

Girl Scout Council HQ in Fairbanks - I just liked the name

Sign inside the main entrance of Pioneer Park in Fairbanks, a theme park devoted to the pioneer days of only a century ago

SS Nenana - largest stern-wheeler ever built west of the Mississippi - she sailed the river from 1933 to 1954, and is now a national historic landmark (I find that oddly curious, for a boat)

Main Street in Pioneer Park - almost all the cabins are originals, most moved to the park from downtown Fairbanks - there are dozens of cabins

An early telephone switchboard from Fairbanks' ... um, early days

"General store" display at Pioneer Park