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The fellow and his wife that run it live in Cold Foot above the Circle. We would be there in a few hours. They also had a gift shop with trinkets and clothes with Arctic Circle on them. I try to buy hat pins for my leather vest wherever I can when in an area of interest, so I bought a few and a t-shirt.

This restaurant was broken into last winter by a bear. It destroyed just about everything in the place and got into the freezers, refrigerators and anything else that had the smell of food. The restaurant is closed during the winter months. After the bear was done, it decided to hibernate in the restaurant for the winter. When the owners came to open for the season, the bear was still there and was killed. They had a picture book with the story and pictures of the event. I tried to take photo's of it but not all came out too well.

After leaving the restaurant, our next stop would finally be our goal. The Arctic Circle! It was only 60 more miles.

After 36 more miles of dirt, gravel, mud, dust and pot holes, we came across asphalt. (If you want to call it that) It was chipped and worn away in some parts but at least it was not as dusty as what we had been on. Rich and Susan could at least ride closer to me now without getting dust in the face and rocks on their bike.

When we got to the Circle, we were surprised that we were not the only ones there. Seems that there are many others who think visiting this place is something to be done too. There were several vehicles there including a camper and two tour vans loaded with folks from all over the world. There was also one family with 7 kids. They were climbing on the Arctic Circle sign with their parents trying to take pictures of them. We of course had to wait for them to do their thing. We just kept standing next to our bikes waiting and finally got to take some pictures. By the way, it was 65 degrees there and exactly 4,500 miles from Lanett.

The tour guides in the vans would roll out a red carpet with a white line on it right in front of the sign so that their guests could cross over the line however they see fit. Some tip toed across, one did a cart wheel across but most just walked. After everyone did their thing, the guide brought out cake with Cool Whip on it so they all could have their cake and eat it too.

There is nothing around here for 60 miles in any direction. Nothing but wilderness. Yet there were about 20 folks there.

We were finally able to get our turn doing the picture thing and after doing so, we continued to head north to Cold Foot Alaska.

Lexicon schreef:Ik heb je reis even bekeken en volgens mij zitten we tegelijkertijd in McCarthy Ceetje
Je hebt in ieder geval een prachtige reis. Zal jouw topic ook even in de gaten houden want die tips kan ik ook wel gebruiken.