{"id":1454,"date":"2012-10-25T19:47:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T23:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2018-01-13T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T23:45:07","slug":"alaska-and-washington-sept-2012-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/alaska-and-washington-sept-2012-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska and Washington, Sept. 2012 part III"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Moose in the morning.<\/p>\n

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\n The leaves are changing color.<\/p>\n

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\n This – and the 1 mile advance sign just to the north – are the only button copy signs I know of in Alaska.<\/p>\n

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\n Heading back down to Anchorage. I made this photo black and white because there just wasn’t all that much color to begin with!<\/p>\n

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\n A small shack in Manley Hot Springs.<\/p>\n

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\n Not quite the road to the hot springs, but close.<\/p>\n

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\n This is where we had stopped to change the flat tire the night before. Sure looks a lot less bear-filled during the day.<\/p>\n

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\n The Elliott Highway has a stretch in the middle with several consecutive old-style white mileposts.<\/p>\n

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\n In Alaska, when the highway department needs a roadblock, they just install a pair of moose.<\/p>\n

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\n The moose walk off the job.<\/p>\n

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\n What, we blew another<\/i> tire? How did we do that?! And this one wasn’t just a leaker- it was all out shredded. Gotta love the cheap tires that rental vehicles come with: even 4x4s.<\/p>\n

We broke down literally half a mile from where the road becomes paved again – and, luckily, about a mile from a mining camp, from which we called a tow truck back to Fairbanks. (AAA to the rescue!)<\/p>\n

Three hours later, we’re riding back to Fairbanks and we have to buy two<\/i> new tires. Well, crappy used tires, that is.<\/p>\n

Expense report submitted to the rental car company!<\/p>\n

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\n 100 miles of free towing – we used up nearly all of it!<\/p>\n

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\n Time to paint some stripes.<\/p>\n

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\n And we’re back to the four-lane highway 2.<\/p>\n

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\n Dang tire!<\/p>\n

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\n I don’t remember where this is, but if there was ever any digit on it, it is long gone. It may be intended as a trailblazer for both 2 and 3, as it does point in that general direction.<\/p>\n

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\n Button copy sign, in context.<\/p>\n

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\n Mountains to the south of Fairbanks.<\/p>\n

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\n This gantry may very well be old enough to refer to a pre-freeway alignment of route 2. It points to the freeway in an indirect manner, so it has survived.<\/p>\n

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\n A polite request.<\/p>\n

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\n Rainy day in Fairbanks.<\/p>\n

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\n Fog in the mountains.<\/p>\n

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\n Snowing to the east.<\/p>\n

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\n The new scenic route marker.<\/p>\n

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\n And the old style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moose in the morning. The leaves are changing color. This – and the 1 mile advance sign just to the north – are the only button copy signs I know of in Alaska. Heading back down to Anchorage. I made this photo black and white because there just wasn’t all that much color to begin with!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}