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    And, finally, a picture of the mighty Yukon River yesterday as I flew home.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kathianne View Post
    It looks very, very cold! Brrrrr!
    Yeah, it was. The ambient 30 below isn't that bad, but it's the wind that knifes right through you that really sucks!

    I'd never live up there... it would suck! I have to have trees and mountains around me to be happy.
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    Very nice pics, NT!
    I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    2 of the guys on the team. One is our Electrician and one is our Construction guy - very hard workers and extremely knowledgeable.

    We found this little hole-in-the-wall Mexican takeout place, and his wife is a superb baker. The guys zeroed in on these decadent goodies and shamelessly rammed 5,000 calories on the spot while we waited for our chimichangas. The food was outstanding - it was probably the best chimi I've ever had.









    The Mexican owner said he's been there for 26 years... kind of an extreme difference in climate! He was happy as hell to chat with us, and I think it's because the locals still view him as an outsider and are unfriendly. We almost had to force him to take our money - he kept trying to give us food and drinks and desserts, which gained him a couple of bleak stares from his hardworking wife and he probably got a good ass chewing after we left.

    Even though we're a bunch of white guys, we don't usually get any racial bullshit from native locals because we're there to give them upgraded internet and cell service... and everyone loves that idea so usually anything that they can do to help us out, they do. When we run across the uncommon racist anti-whitey sentiment, it's almost always from the younger crowd, like the 15 - 22 year old age group... and when the Elders catch wind of that crap, they put a stop to it, fast.
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    Thanks for the fascinating pics!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    Are they Innuit?
    Yeah, Eskimos... Inupiat to be exact - a sub group of the Inuit. They've been hanging out in Barrow for 1,500 years or so.
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    It was an excellent thread with marvelous pics, NT. Thank you so much. I really adored it and am very glad that you felt yourself how is the 3/4 of the territory of Russia in winter time (October-March).
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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    Even though we're a bunch of white guys, we don't usually get any racial bullshit from native locals because we're there to give them upgraded internet and cell service... and everyone loves that idea so usually anything that they can do to help us out, they do. When we run across the uncommon racist anti-whitey sentiment, it's almost always from the younger crowd, like the 15 - 22 year old age group... and when the Elders catch wind of that crap, they put a stop to it, fast.
    Just curious - why do the people of Barrow not like white or Mexican people?
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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    Think you've got unreasonable gas prices?

    $5.90 a gallon! Yeah, I'd be rolling in a Subaru if I lived there.

    This was the bill filling up the rental yesterday before returning it :




    Isn't Barrow a town full of oil companies? I would think gas would be cheaper.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Russ View Post
    Just curious - why do the people of Barrow not like white or Mexican people?
    No, I didn't mean that specifically regarding Barrow... I was speaking generally, out in remote villages around the State. Mexicans or other races are viewed less favorably than white, and I don't know why.

    It's hard to describe... my theory is the younger ones love the hip-hop / rap culture and of course, the underlying message of much of that is the Hate Whitey thing. Not all do, by any means, but a bunch do subscribe to that crap.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Russ View Post
    Isn't Barrow a town full of oil companies? I would think gas would be cheaper.
    Barrow isn't far from the North Slope, that's true.

    The reason is that there isn't a refinery up in Prudhoe Bay. The closest refinery is down in Kenai, which is 150 miles South of Anchorage - so the crude oil is refined down in Kenai (or even the Lower 48) and then shipped back up via barge in the short summer season. All that shipping adds up fast!
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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    No, I didn't mean that specifically regarding Barrow... I was speaking generally, out in remote villages around the State. Mexicans or other races are viewed less favorably than white, and I don't know why.

    It's hard to describe... my theory is the younger ones love the hip-hop / rap culture and of course, the underlying message of much of that is the Hate Whitey thing. Not all do, by any means, but a bunch do subscribe to that crap.
    Interesting. I suppose it is an all-too-common part of human nature.

    Thanks for all the great pics, Rick!
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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    @jimnyc can you rotate this for me, please? Win10 is so stupid sometimes.
    Done!
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