Fairbanks, Chena Hot Springs ... i baretos cutres

05/07/2008

Entre la son i problemes tecnics, tenim intrnet intermitent ... Xo avui enviem tot l'atrassat.

Avui, dissabte, ha estat dia relaxat. Hem agafat el cotxe direccio uns "hot springs" (aigues termals). Xo de cami hem parat a visitar una seccio de la "Alaskan pipeline", la tuberia que porta el petroli tret del mar artic, al nord, fins a Valdez, al sud, a 1500km. Aprox 1 milio de barrils diaris. Tota una obra d'enginyeria!

I despres, doncs a les termes aquestes, a Chena ... (Llo Challenge, xo a Alaska :D). I l'aigua esta hyper calenta ... I amb la calda q fotia (25 graus), pues ens hem kdat xafadets :) Ah, a la tornada hem fet mini-visita als highlights de Fairbanks: pioneer park (super mini parc d'atraccions, xo un museu d'avions interessant), i el museu de la Universitat d'Alaska.

I res, despres de sopar, una visita a un bar local, k com els d'ahir, pos diguem k ... Be, no diguem massa :) Molt de la zona, molt americans, gent molt pintoresca, molt d'Alaska :) Per si mai us trobeu perduts a Fairbanks: restaurant x sopar (Portabella) ... I els garitus de copes, a escollir: midnite maid, kodyak jack (amb toro de rodeo) i barracuda. The real american experience! :)

Una abrasada,

C&C

Due to lack of sleep and technical problems, we have internet access only sporadically ... But today we sent all the delayed material.

Today, saturday, has been a relaxed day. We drove to Chenai Hot Springs and on the way we stopped at the Alaskan Pipeline. This pipeline travels north to south, bringing the oil drilled in the arctic sea all the way to Valdez in the south of Alaska, some 1500km (1000mi), sometimes underground, sometimes over ground, and often through permafrost (frozen ground). Some 1 milion barrels a day. A great feat of engineering!

So, the Chenai Hot Springs ... extremely hot water ... which on a hot day like today (25 degrees C) was not the most appropriate thing to do ... we are really beat :) On the way back we visited some Fairbanks highlights: Pioneer Park (mini theme park, with a great aviation museum) and the Alaskan University Museum.

And then dinner and then a tour of the local pubs and bars, which, like the ones from yesterday, were ... ah! forget it! :D Very local, very american, very apart people ... very Alaska! Some names, just if you ever find yourselves lost in Fairbanks: for dinner, Portobella) and for a drink, Midnite Maid, Kodyak Jack (included rodeo bull) or Barracuda. Real american experience! :D

A hug!