So first off I want to say that I love living here, it seems like everyday is an adventure. Our first week here in town we were initiated by a historic ice storm. Here in Fairbanks they cancel school for rain and not snow!! It warmed up and rained quite a bit, then got colder so all of the roads were like sheets of ice. I am pretty sure I would have been better off ice skating to work rather than driving… lol! Here is an article on the storm.
Even though I love living here is has been quite an adjustment living here, it is not uncommon for people to live here in cabins with no water. Levi and I are living in a cabin but luckly we do have water, and hot water at that!
Here are a few things that I defiantly miss about my former life:
1- Not having to choose between hot water and water pressure.
2- Sunlight
3- Having a seemingly endless supply of water (we have a 1000 gal tank that we have to get filled every so often)
4- Warmth and Sunlight
5- Waste collection (we haul our trash down to a transfer site at the bottom of our hill)
6- Sunlight
7- Not having to do laundry at the laundry mat.
8- Not having to worry about Moose that think they rule the road.
9- Having a real freezer (right now we have a couple of coolers on our porch and I use the trunk of my car)
10- Dogs that eat the food out of our freezer and get into our garbage.
OK but let me tell you, there are some things that I just love, love, love about living here! I can see Russia… ur I mean Denali from my house! I love the snow, and I love all the cross country ski trails around here, we have some right behind our cabin! The hiking is amazing, and it doesn’t take long to get into “wilderness”. I am also super stoked for the summers, and being able to go mountain biking in the middle of the night, or making a 2 AM tee time.
So Levi is in Prudhoe Bay (which is famous for the show ice road truckers) and no he has not become a trucker… he is working as a field engineer for a pipeline company. I am sure that he will be writing about his experiences up there. He will be up there until the end of May with a couple of breaks to come home and visit. Its hard but I am staying busy with taxes at work, and thank goodness for phones and skype!!!
