Night or Day?

Far to the north of Fairbanks (160 miles)

is Circle, Alaska. Even

though they were

building the pipeline

at the time, no one was

allowed on that road so Circle was
the end of the line!

Circle is next to the Yukon

River and when I was

there, it was not much of a

settlement. I drove there

in one day and waited

for the sun to go down

before I went to asleep.

The farther north you go,

in mid summer, the less

night time. I finally gave up

at 2 AM because it was

not going to get dark.

 Circle, Alaska

Morning person I am not

so when I started waking up

at 4 AM every morning, I was

not happy.

Back in ANCHORAGE

What is the deal anyway?

Programmed from somewhere in

our complicated brains is a signal that when

light comes flooding through a window, 
it is time to wake up. 

I finally had to black out
my windows so that I
could sleep because
in summer, the sun
came up at 3 AM
and went down at 1 AM
the next day.


At one point in the winter
I arose in the dark and
it was still dark at 9 AM
but the odd darkness
came at 5 PM - pitch
black - that was the middle
of winter.

Alaskan Moose


It is true that they play
baseball at midnight in
Anchorage.