I have never been more miserable and happy!? Alaska is an amazing place, I can't explain it, when you see the aurora borealis (sp?) it's amazing! I remember driving home from the base and I hade to pull over because all of the tendrils of light streaking across the sky. It was the first time in the winter that it had been clear enough to happen, or become visible. Yes the cold was dreary and the fact that night never really leaves in the month of December it was humbling... I loved it. I loved being able to drive to the town of North Pole and gas up my car and not hear anything, not a lot of traffic any time during the day. Looking out my front porch to look at the moose that would lick my bronco as a salt lick because of the over hanging trees. In the summer time the geese and duck would flock about and watching them was pretty cool too. Summer time was a completely different because the sun never went down, shops stay open for 24 hours because of the summer Soltice. I lived in Fairbanks and I would love to visit.
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I hear fairbanks is cold then again its currently 7º here in palmer.
@Madgefan298 - it is cold in alaska. I am happy to be back in California! the coldest I fell there was seventy below zero
@portasaurus - wow, thats cold