Fairbanks/Athabaskan village/Riding a salmon, sleeping in the village.

We spent the day in Fairbanks, at a gold mine in Eldorado, Gold Mine No. 8 dredge. Did you know:

Alaska state tree: Sitka Spruce

State sport: dog mushing

State Flower: Forget-Me-not

Population: 40,000

Amount of daylight:

Maximum: 21 hours, 48 minutes

Minimum: 3 hours, 42 minutes.

Fairbanks is a neat little city. I could spend more time here as in Denali. The air here is so clean and fresh. It feels good just to take a deep breath. I will put lots more pictures on the blog today.

We rode a sternwheeler riverboat Alaska, visited an Athabaskan, (native Americans) village. We saw where Susan Butcher lived and trained her dogs for the Iditarod. Saw how they catch, skin, smoke and eat salmon and train musher dogs. We panned for gold at Mine No. 8. I got $28 worth of gold. Mark got $20 worth of gold. Check out these pictures.