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Beginning of a Long Ride  
   

Beginning of a Long Ride

This is the Dalton Highway, which runs from near Fairbanks to the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean (about 450 miles of gravel road).
Fairbanks

August 3rd 2006
Fairbanks is the northernmost population center in Alaska, with about 30,000 residents, and after 8,500 miles, it is where we will make the turn and begin our trip back home. It is a real frontier town with a colorful history of boom and bust cycles. It was founded in 1901 by Captain E. T. Burnette as a trading post. The site was selected because it was here that the water became too shallow fo ... read more
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