Fairbanks / Chena River / Mooses, Meeses, or Meese?

OK, so I got to Fairbanks and headed pretty quickly to the Chena Hot Springs. I had heard good things, I hadn't showered in three days and my back was hurting. The hot springs are about an hour up a river valley from Fairbanks. A very laid back resort sits at the top of this canyon and the hot spring water is fed into a large pool ringed with boulders. A fire hose-looking thing in the middle of the pool shot up cool water in case you got too hot. $10 gets you a day pass... but I only needed two hours for the waters to cured my ills.

Here's the boulder-lined pool:


Mooses in the Chena River State Park:


My camp on the Chena River:


Doug and Judy, below. They were from Flint, Michigan. Doug had the most interesting rig I'd seen yet. Behind his Chevy, he was pulling a flat-bed trailer with a camper, a boat, a freezer and a 50 gallon auxillary tank of gas on it. He had been all over Alaska hunting deer, fishing halibut and now he was after a moose. Good people:


I'm currently in Girdwood at Uncle Kevin's. Still need to get on the road to Homer, but this is a fun town. Hard to leave.