At 6:30 AM we left for a tour to the Arctic Circle. It was a 16-hour tour. We arrived back at 10:30 PM. The trip was 400 miles round trip. Almost 200 miles of it was gravel. John was glad someone else was doing the driving for a change. The guide, a young woman, was very special. She has a lot of knowledge about the area and presented it in a very interesting way. The trip was on the road that was built in order to install the Alaska pipeline. We were able to see it for miles. At one place we stopped right beside it and were able to get good pictures. The Arctic Circle is not spectacular. You only know you are there because of a sign. The significance of the Arctic Circle is that it is the latitude where the sun does not set on the summer solstice--either June 21 or June 22. I am not certain which.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
July 18, 2007
At 6:30 AM we left for a tour to the Arctic Circle. It was a 16-hour tour. We arrived back at 10:30 PM. The trip was 400 miles round trip. Almost 200 miles of it was gravel. John was glad someone else was doing the driving for a change. The guide, a young woman, was very special. She has a lot of knowledge about the area and presented it in a very interesting way. The trip was on the road that was built in order to install the Alaska pipeline. We were able to see it for miles. At one place we stopped right beside it and were able to get good pictures. The Arctic Circle is not spectacular. You only know you are there because of a sign. The significance of the Arctic Circle is that it is the latitude where the sun does not set on the summer solstice--either June 21 or June 22. I am not certain which.
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