(uncertain date---problems with camera. . . .) We thought that this one was . . . interesting.  It is a sign at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, warning that the lot is closed for snow removal---in late August.  (!) ~:) :)

      (uncertain date---problems with camera. . . .) Alaska truly is a different place:

      It wasn't until March of 2008 (!!!!), that I was able to "get to" this page.  :P :P :P :P However, I think this was from the bulletin board, on the sixth floor of the GI (Geophysical Institute).

      :)

      9/1/05 There was this bike path that I could see from the [Parks] highway.  I had been meaning to see where it went for some time, now.  So, on a bike ride back from the Pump House (Pretty much the only good restaurant in town---kind of odd, that, as this is like, a tourist town, 'n stuff. . . .), I followed it down to the Chena.

      (Rereading this--in March of 2008 (!!!!)--I find the above unfair.  :( The Mayflower Buffet on 3rd [avenue] is quite good (and THE BEST deal in town!! :) :) )---and "Seoul Gate" (in the basement of "Arctic Bowl" is also VERY good.  :) :) ).)

      This was really cool---I had been driving over this bridge for over 5 years (My how time files---when yer' "having fun. . . ." :P :P :P :P )--and yet, I never even thought about what was underneath it, 'n stuff.

      You can just see two steam boats in the background.  One of them is owned by the former landlord of our former graduate physics secretary.  -Small world, ain't it? ;) :)

      9/2/05 (My camera seems to be working fine, now; the stretched duct tape seems to be holding.  :) ;) ) Arctic clouds can be really cool.  :) Sometimes, they look like they were painted on the sky as if by a giant brush. . . .

      9/2/05 This one was taken at the local Chinese restaurant.  The grammar is SOO bad--that I actually thought about sending it to engrish.com--but then I realized: The make entirely too good of food for me to do something like that.  :)

On to more Alaska pics.