June 17, DAY 37
Wednesday was our free day and we attempted to get hair cuts and only found the salon in Walmart and they weren’t busy. However, we found some of our group there and they said the person cutting the hair was ill. Didn’t want to chance catching what ever he had so passed on the chop shop. We had planned to go to Chena Hot Springs but the oil & lube service on the motorhome took longer than expected so didn’t get there but we had a very nice time at the garage. Motorhome is in tip top shape for the remainder of the trip according to the check sheet they gave me.
June 18, DAY 38
We are off to Denali but just down the road found one of our caravaners broke down. He has a 42 foot pusher and was leaking coolant. He has a Harley on the back of his rig in front of the tow car so can’t get engine door open to see what is wrong. He had his rig in the shop at Fairbanks with some type of electrical sensor problem. They had to take up the carpet and the bed frame to get to the engine to fix the problem. It now appears they may not have tightened a hose clamp or something when they put things back together. We reached the tailgunner and he stopped to help so we moved on down the road through rain and over cast skies. We are sitting in the campground at Denali in the rain with temps of 55 degrees and they forecast rain for tomorrow when we have our bus tour. The bus picks us up at 6AM for an 8 hour tour. Not too hopeful to see the mountain but we do have a nice view of the river. My front tires are about 3 feet from the cliff that drops straight down to the river. Our friends got their leak fixed quickly and it was a loose hose related to the repair work they had done. Oh, the original repair didn’t fix their problem, their turbo still isn’t working and they get check engine lights when trying to climb hills. The rain stopped for awhile and we wnt to town and had dinner at the Salmon Bake restaurant. The town is mostly hotels set up by the cruise ship lines and some tourist traps for those brought here by bus.
