A place to pig out in FairbanksCopyright 2007 Lydia Hinshaw
FAIRBANKS, AK -- The first thing I noticed on the tourist map was a barbecue joint.
It took only a few minutes to find it, and it was lunchtime.
And so we had our first barbecue since April 15, when we ate a late lunch in Macon, GA, on the first day of our cross-two-countries trip. We thought it would be October before we had barbecue again
The pulled pork at Big Daddy's was excellent by even our lofty southern standards. And the waitress understood that iced tea isn't a fountain drink.
Prince Charming and I had a couple of days off so we drove 125 miles to Fairbanks for a taste of Normal Life after nearly a month at Denali.
We don't exactly live in the wilderness, given that there are six or more luxury hotels within a short walk of our cabin. There's a gas station, two of convenience stores, even a Subway. There's a huge selection of T-shirts and picture postcards and polar fleece jackets for half price!
But there's no barbecue, and ordinary toiletries come in tiny containers with giant prices.
Fairbanks has two Safeways (supermarkets), two Fred Meyers (huge discount stores) and a Wal-Mart. We hit them all. We bought gas for $2.85 per gallon instead of the $3.48 we have to pay here. We drove all over town, seeing what we could see.
At the visitor information center, there was a mulit-sided kiosk with lists of the mileage from Fairbanks to dozens of cities worldwide.
I shot a picture of the segment of the list that includes Florida's only entry. It helped us understand how far from home we are -- closer to London and Moscow than Miami.
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