I would pass thru on my way to Eielson AFB while working for a DOD contractor on base. Mostly flat area with small trees. I remember the highway from Fairbanks had frost heave.
Yeah. You know us enlisted folks are trash.
My first night on station (Yaquina Bay CG station) I was assigned a hot rack and a SN came in drunk (probably kicked out of the house by his wife), woke me up about midnight, giving me grief for some unknown reason, and all the others (including the OOD) just ignored him and pretended to be asleep. The next day the master chief gave him a lecture in his office.
Welcome! Of all the places on Earth, I have been considering moving to "North Pole, Alaska"! Fairbanks, too. But North Pole caught my eye. You'll love it in this forum. Lots of friendly and knowledgeable people in here.
North Pole is a suburb of Fairbanks, located along the Richardson Hwy, half way between Ft Wainwright and Eielson AFB.
It's been 40 years since I was there, but then it was not a suburb (which is adjacent to a larger city), it was a separate little community that was separate from Fairbanks - kind of like the city (Newberg) near where I live now (between Newberg & Scholls). Maybe the two have grown considerably?
Perhaps a better term would be bedroom community. The greater majority of people who reside in the 99705 zip code do not earn their living there.
That store was very cool.
I've driven past it a million times but never set foot inside.
It's crazy, right?
