Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014 – Travel to Fairbanks

After breakfast, we headed north, with a long journey today, all the way to Fairbanks. We had a reservation at a local RV park, primarily because we needed to do laundry, and because they're website indicated they had a free shuttle to most of the sights we wanted to see. It was a beautiful drive, with incredible scenery once again, but cloudy and mostly raining until we got near Fairbanks, so no Denali sightings today. Arrived by mid-afternoon, got a little turned around thanks to a misunderstanding with my GPS, but arrived safely at a place right along the river that goes through the city. Had dinner and did laundry for the rest of the evening. Unfortunately, their change machine didn't take "new" $5 bills, and the only other bill I had was a $20, so I ended up with WAY more change than I anticipated. They charged a lot for their laundry, though, so in retrospect, I would have parked at Walmart and found a laundromat, it wasn't worth the expense. Plus, we had to change spots once, because the family next door was kind of encroaching on our spot, and had noisy kids and rowdy drinking buddies hanging around, and kept a campfire going, despite rules to the contrary. We had planned to stay for three nights, but now we are reconsidering. Kind of noisy right be a major road, too. Miss being out in the woods!