Did you guess? We're still in Tok. Population 1415.
Tok originated as an Alaska Road Commission camp for the construction of the Alcan and Glenn Highways in the 1940s.
The story is: one of the engineers on the project had a dog that made friends with a orphaned black bear cub. The cub was taken in by the workers and traveled with them. The dog's name was TOK. Therefore....Tok, Alaska.
Drive around Tok and you’ll see wild and domestic flower gardens, big vegetables, log homes with sod and wild flower roofs, old fish wheels, historic mining equipment, lots of airplanes, log caches. In late afternoon you may see the llamas strolling Tok.
On January 10, 2009 Tok made headlines with an unconfirmed temperature reading of -80°F. But the weather today was quite pleasant. We were told that it has been 100 here.
This time of year, there are flower baskets everywhere.
The sod roofs are good insulation, I'm told. I don't really think you have to mow it. But I'm sure it's "dirt cheap".
We saw a moose. We saw a bear.
Then we saw some really scary critters.
They are "sled dogs". $100 each. Pam wanted one. BUT, if you know Lon.
After exploring town. Lon & Pam went to explore the woods. Weapon drawn.
No bears, but they found the magic mushrooms.
After their "trip" in to the woods. Pam fed us all. The beef stew she had cooked all day was better than
Dinty Moore!
Tomorrow, off to Delta Junction, North Pole, and Fairbanks. Maybe.
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