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valdez

The ferry docks at Valdez at about 8.30 pm and I ride to a campsite just outside town to camp for the night.
Valdez is where the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, that I followed for five hundred miles along the Dalton Highway from Deadhorse until Fairbanks, terminates. The pipeline carries millions and millions of gallons of crude oil each [...]

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2009 07 18 anna on my bike
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relflections on the dalton highway

The thing that I found fascinating about the Dalton Highway is the sense of community that exists on the 414 mile ribbon of mud, gravel and occasional asphalt that traverses the arctic tundra and mountains north of Fairbanks.
There are very few permanent residents on this road. The main settlements are work camps – mostly to [...]

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2009 07 15 anna idle musings
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