We went to Fairbanks yesterday just to look around. It is about 1-1/2 hours from Delta Junction and has most of the amenities of a big city minus the super-mall. On the way we stopped by North Pole, AK to see Santa and his reindeer. Very tourist-orientated town, go figure. We spluged and ate at a fast-food Wendy's. It was delicious and so much more affordable. We are lucky to have a hamburger, fries, and drink for under $16. We stopped by Wal-Mart where we saw our first Wal-Mart Liquor Store. Found out where Sam’s Club was and then dropped by a big Sportsman Warehouse to look at cold weather gear and I picked up a few Arctic Grayling lures. We did not buy much of anything today since we have not nailed down a place to live yet. We are moving out of the Bed and Breakfast in town today and into Billiting on Fort Greely. We will stay in a Recreational Quarters until we find a place to live. Not sure why they're called recreational quarters, must have something to do with the privatization of quarters on the military post. The Fort Greely Housing folks showed us a 4 bedroom field grade quarters that might be available on a yearly lease. We lived in privatized quarters for a year at Robins Air Force Base, not a bad deal. Today we will look at a two-bedroom apartment, a three-bedroom house, and then on Monday a walk-through of the four-bedroom townhome on Fort Greely and then we will crunch numbers and make up our mind. All of them are between 3.2 miles and 7.4 miles from school. All of them are on a maintained winter roads. I am tired of living out of a suitcase and only getting Fox News when the tree is not blowing in front of the satellite dish. (Nina is also experiencing withdrawal symptoms with not being able to see HGTV.) It is strange having almost 20 hours of daylight; we have been up past midnight the last few days and really did not even realize it. I am not complaining, because I know that in a couple of months I will only see sunlight for a couple of hours a day.
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