- A painting or a photo, can’t remember…
The big day arrived and my friend Jackie flew into town, arriving at 1:30 AM. I get to the airport at 1:40 AM to pick her up and she’s a little loopy. She’s afraid of flying so you can’t blame her. She had a great story of how the stewards had tried to cut her off or get her to stop having fun and be quiet but she blew them off.
So we head off to one of my regular bars and have a couple. Ran into John, the Postdoctoral Fellow of the Geophysical Institute and Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at University of Alaka at Fairbanks, and had a nice talk with him. He’s the guy that when I first met him, I got all excited to talk to him about high energy physics and he mistook that as a gay come on. Damn, it’s gotten so bad in this country that you can’t even be interested in science without being accused of some sinister motive. Thanks to the religious right (cults, all of them).
Jackie was soundly drunk by this time and it was funny listening to her try to talk intelligently about anything. Cute & silly. Anyway, we spend an hour there, dodged around a fight going on in the bar, then head back to my RV while I assure her that she had all her luggage…twice.
She took over my bedroom and I got the sofa. Both beds are comfortable so neither of us complained. Next morning, I take her over to my office and show her around. Then we hike over to Pioneer Park and spend a couple hours going to museums and shops.
- Not even hung over…much.
- Sunshine in Fairbanks!
We run up to University of Alaska at Fairbanks (UAF). That's the museum in the background.
Fairbanks valley.
Looking toward downtown Fairbanks...it's over there just a couple miles but it's not very tall so hard to see.
Here we are entering the museum at UAF, the bear could have her for lunch.
Some of the pictures are going to be fuzzy because flash photography is not allowed in the museum and it’s hard to hold the camera still.
Some of the 10's of thousands of dollars worth of gold objects at the museum.
Amazing baskets.
A photo of a giant photo of a Hubble Space Telescope photo. The pinwheel galaxy.
Another Hubble photo...The Horsehead Nebula.
Some native carved artwork.
One of the several diaramas.
Interesting sculpture.
That’s our visit to the big ass museum here in Fairbanks. More later.