Alaskan Adventure - Day 14 - Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Fairbanks, Anchorage, AK

Mostly cloudy, 61 degrees in Fairbanks, 53 in Anchorage.

Woke up at my normal time, around 0530, went back to sleep until 0930. This has been a tiring trip; lot of touring, up early every day, awake until late at night. Today is a travel day and since we don't have a flight out of Fairbanks until 4:11 PM, there was no point in getting up early. We will be flying from Anchorage to Chicago on a red eye flight tonight, so we probably won't get much sleep. Packed up and worked on our photos until checkout time at noon. I talked to Mark on Instant Messenger briefly.

We checked out of our room at noon, then had lunch at the Red Lantern restaurant in the hotel. At 2:00 PM, we took Holland America's shuttle bus to the airport. Our 50 minute flight from Fairbanks to Anchorage took off at 4:11 PM. We had a layover of about 3 hours before boarding our United red-eye flight to Chicago. We slept intermittently on the plane, arriving at Chicago's O'Hare airport at 4:30 AM.