We've been away !!!

Sorry for our silence - We have been away, out of range of wifi !!
It took us 4 days to drive up the Dalton / Ice Truckers Road to Prudhoe Bay and back, and it was an AMAZING trip.  The Atigun Pass is all it is made out to be on the TV, and Prudhoe Bay is just like an enormous Oil Rig Camp out in the middle of nowhere !!  Freaky.   And while there we walked on the Arctic Ocean, of course !
Then 2 days to get back to Fairbanks - In perfect blue sky weather !  Through the snow covered Atgun Pass in sunshine at 10.30 pm at night - Absolutely magical.
Then back to Fairbanks to wash the car (wait till you see the photos !!) before we set off south again, this time to drive the Denali Highway, another dirt road from west to east across Alaska - Again, just the most incredible scenery, mountains, and camp sites.

We have seen push bikes, push bikes with babies in trailers, motorcycles covered in mud, cars and trucks of all descriptions, and have met some amazing people along the way, everyone of them with a fascinating story to tell !  We have seen, moose (and mooselets !), caribou, lots of ground squirrels (known as "fast food" for all the other animals up here !!), ptarmigan, lots of ducks, geese, and trumpeter swans that have flown north for the summer, but very few bears.  The Alaskan Oil Pipline has been our constant companion, winding along beside us as we drove from Valdez to Prudhoe Bay.  And almost constantly we have been surround by the most beautiful snow covered mountains that you can imagine. 
Tonight we have just got wifi for almost the first time - And I still have to write all my blogs and finish downloading pics.  Hopefully some can be up shortly, but once you get behind on these things, catching up is nearly impossible !  So please bear with me !!

Some uncaptioned pics are here.  (Most recent first, so start at the bottom !)

https://picasaweb.google.com/117739775480775657932/0031TangleLakesToDenali?authkey=Gv1sRgCN7b_KadiYmWEQ#

https://picasaweb.google.com/117739775480775657932/0030FairbanksToTangleLakes?authkey=Gv1sRgCLXFusyt9KP3OQ#

https://picasaweb.google.com/117739775480775657932/0029Fairbanks2?authkey=Gv1sRgCOy_qPe826eETQ#

https://picasaweb.google.com/117739775480775657932/0028AtigunPassToFairbanks?authkey=Gv1sRgCL3C0dP4lISsvAE#

https://picasaweb.google.com/117739775480775657932/0027ToPrudhoeAndBackToAtigunPass?authkey=Gv1sRgCLfi2dOjisTDHA#

https://picasaweb.google.com/117739775480775657932/0026ArcticCircleToIceCut?authkey=Gv1sRgCKvp9_XajMmtSA#

https://picasaweb.google.com/117739775480775657932/0025FairbanksToArcticCircle?authkey=Gv1sRgCJTfx9GlzJCnEA#


https://picasaweb.google.com/117739775480775657932/0024Fairbanks?authkey=Gv1sRgCOf7mbzhpYXQbQ#