Beautiful country around there! 100 at 3K rpm? wow.

 

seemed pretty low to me? i only have 3:73s sadly.

just got up we have another packed day then the drive home. i'm sick as a dog but plan to enjoy all i can!

some more pics from the drive




once we got in fairbanks we went exploring


ofcourse had to fillup again haha



last night we headed up to north pole, alaska and stopped at the santa house which was awsome.







then we headed out to the trans alaska oil pipeline viewing point. we touched the pipline and everything haha






then we checked out downtown alittle bit

 

$3.52 for regular? Ouch. I see fall is setting in around you already, is yellow the normal fall color around there? We have just a few trees starting to turn around us.

 

Double post somehow.

 

yeah it was $3.52, i get a 10cent discount thru them though so it was $3.42 for me.

yeah the trees are just turning up here...down home we dont have this much yellow yet. we get about every color..yellow,amber,orange..ect but later in the season. but it can snow at the end of sept here soooo winter is not far away.

 

I have a gas station right across the street and from my couch I see regular is 2.66 right now here.


I like fall, nice colors, no bugs, cool weather, its all so nice. We can rarely get snow towards the end of Sept. as well but it almost never sticks. Late Oct. early Nov. is when we can get sticking snow.

Nice shots BTW! I love seeing other parts of the country! I hope I live to retirement so I can go see all these places in person.

 

i own one square inch of that santa clause house, so i hope you didnt treepass on my portion of the property.

 

haha dont think so we just took pics and left.

so for the fun part...the truck lost the alternator just outside of wasilla,ak but i turned everything off that i could and was able to make it home the last 45 miles thank god. shes in the garage now waiting for me to pull it. atleast it decided to do it when i was so close to home or i woulda been screwed out in the middle of nowhere!

we had an absolute blast! great short vacation..checking out parts of this wonderful state i live in.

my starting milage


my ending milage


one more test of my removed speedlimiter haha


the hotel sign lol


welcome to fairbanks sign



then i wanted to head to the start of the dalton highway/haul road. as seen on "ice road truckers" we didnt get to the real stat because thats about 100 miles out. but we took the elliot highway up alittle ways. and saw the weigh station.






it was still alittle foggy around 10am


then we headed the 60miles out to chena(sp) hotsprings for a amazing time in the hot water








then we headed back into fairbanks for food and gas then headed back for anchorage...got a few nice pics along the way.








then we stopped in denali(sp) AK for a snack and strech out.

 

What speed did you get the Excurison up to in that picture?

 

man i hear the alternators suck, i should carry a spare i think! u know i was kidding about the tresspass thing right? i do own a square inch tho.

 

the GPS had us clocked at 115mph in that pic.

yeah i felt pretty lucky this was the factory alternator with 120k miles on her..it was time i'm sure. even though i'm sick as a dog i went and bought one and replaced it this morning..very easy and quick job thank god.

i wasnt sure if you were joking or not haha

 

where u get the alt and how much was it?

 

B&C carquest, off international. list price was like $260. i got it for $197 with our company discount. then i get the $56 core charage back. it was alot less then i thought it was going to be. i swear the V10 and 5.4s have to be the easiest to replace alternator in!!

 

7.3s are even easier! You can do one in not even 10 minutes (if you have gloves like I do) right there in the parking lot if it comes down to it...

 

Great pictures Russ!

It looks like the leaves are starting to turn to fall colors!