Day 13 - 08/04 -Fairbanks
Today is our last day on this sea/land trip. Tomorrow afternoon we fly back home to Seattle. But what a nice day it's been. We boarded our bus which was driven by Robin, winner of Miss Alaska Congeniality 2022. Our first stop was at the Riverboat Landing by the airport. We boarded the river boat and we're counseled to sit on the left or port side. I knew why as we did this same cruise last year. We departed and began our cruise down the river. A float plane (SuperCub) did a take-off and landing demonstration on the river and a bit later we stopped for a sled dog demonstration at the kennels of the now deceased 4 time winner of the Iditarod, Susan Butcher. Her husband operates the kennel and training facility and did a demo for us. We cruised down the river and turned around and stopped at the Chena Village which is a recreation of a typical Athabaskan village. We had 3 guided demonstrations and were then allowed to roam around. Jakob and I found the sled dogs and t