Dinnertime in Delta Junction

So I’m sitting here on the couch at the Tanana Loop Country Inn Bed & Breakfast near Delta Junction, Alaska, waiting for my co-workers, aka ‘the boys’, to gather up and go grab some dinner. I’m not sure if it will really happen, though, because there is dissension in the ranks. Some of the guys are warming up their ‘Hungry-man’ TV dinners in the microwave, and another has decided to skip dinner and stay at the cabin after claims that he is the most out of shape he’s been in in a long time.

It will be 4 weeks tomorrow that I’ve been up here in Alaska. It looks like I’ve got another couple weeks to go. Honestly, though, I’ve enjoyed this trip quite a bit. The folks I’ve gotten to work with have been pretty cool. Several of the guys on our crew have quite the sense of humor – very sarcastic. Maybe I mentioned this before, but pretty much everyone on the crew has been ‘fired’ several times, which usually go something like this: ‘uh, yeah, I just got off a conference call with (insert boss’s name(s) here) and we’re going to have to let you go’. We have a few running jokes amongst us. All this makes for a lighter work environment to say the least. Combine that with an easy going project, and this feels more like a vacation than work. I think it will feel weird to go back to Seattle and start regular work again.

I’m back in the Lazy Boy now, and yes, dinner finally did happen.

Alaska Photos

So here are a few pictures...
The road between Tok and Fairbanks.

An iris at one of the sites we worked at.

Me and the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline (TAPS). It's big.

A shot of the clouds at a site we were at.

Some of the vegetation we've encountered alot as we hike thru the woods to the sites.

I've taken alot more pictures, but I'll stop there... I think there's some frisbee in the works with the co-workers. Adios from Delta!