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Leaving Valdez we headed to Central, the home turf of the groom of the wedding we just attended. The small town of Central is, well, basically in central Alaska as a matter of fact. It’s about three hours North of Fairbanks on the Steese Highway (NOT to be confused with the Dalton Highway/Haul Road to [...]

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We spent one more day with the Tyrrells, enjoying the local hot spring, more home cooked wild game, and a short flight in one of their bush planes, the Piper 12 which just have new 31-inch Bushwheels put on it. We flew out to Circle, I peed in the giant Yukon river, then we flew [...]

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