Things can only get better!!

[Lifemagician]

That is why I am not sure if I can still afford it..... the tour is $1000+. It was going to be my birthday present to me - LOL

Will need to see what the mechanic says today. I have never considered driving it!

[glc]

If they have a slot available, the Dalton Highway Express is $442 round trip, with about $240 for a room in Deadhorse.

[Lifemagician]

I have the choice of taking a shuttle without commentary or anything else - leaving at 5am and getting back at midnight the next day, and making my own arrangement for the stay overniight in Deadhorse.

Or bein part of a three day tour, flying to Deadhorse, with a guide conducted two day road trip back - including side trips, and overnigbhting in Deadhorse and Coldfoot (I think).

The latter at least sounds like value for money!

[Lifemagician]

Hey Lifey,

I got my fingers [and everything else] crossed for you that it's something easily [and cheaply] fixed.

Dave, struggling to type while fingers crossed ;-)

Well, I guess it was not something which would be cheaply fixed... up here nothing is cheap. However, it was neither the $400 I had hoped, nor the $1200 I had feared.... but $800, the middle ground. Just hope they take Visa.

As for easily!! Well, there is not a fuel pump in town, in fact he ordered it late today from.... wait for it.... Oregon! Hopes it comes in before the end of the week. :-(

On a brighter note... have booked onto a trip to Prudhoe Bay... none of those mentioned above. This is a three day driving tour:
Day 1 to Wiseman
Day 2 to Prudhoe Bay and the waters of the Arctic Ocean and back to Wiseman
Day 3 back to Fairbanks
for $725, not including meals... 19th - 21st June.

Public transport is almost non-existant here, and a taxi to downtown is $15, so I guess I will have a chance over the next few days to catch up on the backlog of everything else.

Lifey who took some time to accept her fate :-)

[Lifemagician]

All good things come to an end.... and last night it was my much used and valued 12 volt cooler. When I returned from dinner, I noted that the outside near the motor was very very hot - too hot to touch, and when I opened it, I noticed that the contents were not extremely cold.

So after faithfully serviing me through three and a half long trips, it has gone where all good little coolers go, and I am left to resort to ice.

Lifey - taking bets on what will go next