Fairbanks to Denali 7/1/2008

We woke up early in the morning on tuesday and packed our backpacks at 530 in the morning. We had to be at the train station at 0715 in the morning so we were trying to get everything together in order to be there. Aunt Ethel Faye cooked us breakfast as we were showering. Of course Renae and I played with Ethel's cat Tom for a couple of minutes. Aunt Ethel Faye lives in a log cabin that she and her late husband Glen built in 1975. Ethel drove us into Fairbanks and dropped us off at the train station. It was a little overcast and raining off and on, but was a nice day. It has been a while since Renae and I have ridden a train so we were looking forward to the experience. We checked our backpacks and loaded the train. Some of the cars had observation decks that you could sit and observe the scenery. The train started out with hardly anyone in our car but the large white carnivores called tourist kept coming through our car and waking me up. Renae had gone up to the observation deck to watch and I was trying to sleep but ended up going up to. We saw a cow moose in our jouney on the train and we could hang out the train door to take pictures which was so way cool. We took lots of pictures of the train and mountain scenery on the way to Denali.

I am going to do a separate Denali post when we get back to Fairbanks.