We hope you come visit!

Here's how you get here......

Start by getting yourself to Alaska.

If you drive it will take from 4 to 7 days depending on how fast you travel.  It's an adventurous road with very few places to get gas and food so carry fuel tanks or top off your gas at every opportunity.   

This map shows the highways in Alaska.  These are the only roads in Alaska.  Most of the state is not reachable by road so we are grateful to have one in our neck of the woods.

Then get yourself to Fairbanks.

From Fairbanks get on the Steese Highway and head northeast.  About 20 miles out you will pass the Kinross Gold Mine where Raz works.  A few miles after that the cell phone service ends.  Ham radio is the way to go if you happen to have that.  Sat phones work too.

Central is 130 miles from Fairbanks.  Gas up before you go.  At about 90 miles out, at this side of 12 Mile Summit, the road becomes a very well graded dirt road.  

The red dot is our place.  When you get to Central turn right at the road house onto Circle Hot Springs Road.  Go 6.5 miles.  Turn right on our street.  Good luck with that, there are no street signs.  Lol.  We aren't even sure what our street name is.  Our house does not have an address.  Don't know why.

The red dot is our place.  The blue dot is the Circle Hot Springs.

Here's our place.  You can see our neighbors airplane parked st the top of the airstrip (our road).

Of course your guest cabin isn't built yet but it will Be!  Come in summer or fall.

Golf Kart batteries

This is like the batteries I will be using  I will be getting them locally from Batteries Plus and I am planning on 8 of them configured in a 24 volt system

I can't wait

this is a pic of the wind turbine

Our Backyard

August 2016
We took a drive back up and behind the mountain nearby.

Our Floorplan

Here are the floorplan for our cabin.  It's a given that some of it will change a little as we go but here it is so far.  The kitchen, living room, den and bathroom are the part of the cabin that is the current structure.

Sometimes it's No Fun.

The Back Room

So, then we decided that before the snow flies we could get one of the rooms in the back closed in.

 You can sorta see how this room back in there  started out.

The Wood Stove

After we got all the OSB on the walls Raz and I put in the stove and pipes.

See how the stove started out all rusty?  

Now it looks all new.

The black behind the stove is a piece of sheet metal Raz found in the yard.  We will tile later.

Inside the cabin . . . so far.

I should have taken pictures of the inside when we first opened it up.  The cabin had ben unused for a number of years and the squirrels had moved in.  The place was completely taken over and although we didn't find any living squirrels on the indide there was a massive amount of droppings . . . Everywhere.  Our first visit up I couldn't even be in the cabin, the air was that bad.  We got it all cleaned out later and I was happy when Raz got all the osb on the walls.

After OSB

So, now the cabin is at least comfortable to stay in while we work on it.  This is just the front room of the existing build.  There are 2 rooms in the back also but they are not yet insulated so we are using them to store tools in.

lots and lots of carribou

The Wash

This is a snippet of the wash back behind our property a ways.  It is a constant flow of clean spring water and snow melt coming off the mountains behind us.  The water runs under the plant life.

Running the Dogs

Brodie and Titus are litter brothers. Titus belongs to Kelly but he hangs with our pack a lot of the time.

The Moose on the Loose.

The Great Gray Owl.

The guys who come out monthly to read the power meter told us that a great gray owl could often be seen camped out in our porch rafters.  We saw him a couple of times.  He's massive.

They are the largest of the owls.  Thier wing span can be 5 feet.  I would say sounds about right judging by the poopie left behind....about the size of a sandwich plate.  Well, he won't be bunking in the rafters anymore. 

The rising sun.

The morning sun coming up over the horizon in the northeast.

August 2016 at about 6am.

Here's a poem Raz wrote me.

With you I will watch the sun go down
 and even hold your hand

With you I'll share a morning cup
and think about a plan

With you I'll watch the mountain Jay
as he tries to steal our food

With you we'll build a nice retreat
in our special neighborhood

With you I think we stand a chance
to make it all work out

Without you, I would be lost,
of that I have no doubt

We love the pool!!!!

Lorie just posted some pics about the Circle Hot Springs Pool.. What a great thing to have so close to use. As a person who tries to plan for things that may or may not ever happen, I look to the pool and the water that feeds it as a tool for survival .  Having a place that is actually in walking distance, if needed, that a person could get hot water is awesome. Also, the water has been tested by the people that live up there and it is surprisingly really good water.  Lorie and I often go to a place called Chena Hot Springs to swim and soak. It is 55 miles from here and cost us $15.00 a piece to get in.  and we still love it.  Every time we go there if I forget to take my rings off they tarnish really bad within minutes. Minerals in the water. But not so at Circle Hot Springs  Never !!!!
They say that there is a little bit of salt in the water but not enough to hurt if had to be used for consumption. I can also haul the water from the creek that feeds the pool instead of paying to haul from town. If we only use it for washing clothes and dishes it would be awesome.
Add to all that, it is just a great place to relax after a hard day of watching the Gray Jays try to get a little bit of dinner from us. lol  So to wrap it up, just one more great reason we think we found such a great spot!

Blessings flow . . . for we are never alone in this world....

Patsy was here with us this day.

Circle Hot Springs.

Central, Circle . . . . Whaaaa?

Our place is in Central, Alaska.  Not to be confused with Circle, Alaska which is 30 miles further on where the road comes to an end at the mighty Yukon river.  (Just 50 miles from the arctic circle.)  However, the hot springs we go to is called Circle Hot Springs even though its in Central and is just 2 miles from our place. On top of that . . . its all in central Alaska.  Got it?  Lol.   The Circle Hot Springs resort was once quite the happening vacation spot in its day.  It must have been really something judging by the remnants left behind.  Here's a little tour.

This is Town

Central Corner

Better known as the roadhouse.

All in one building.  Bar, gas, laundromat, grocery, restaurant, shower, motel, get your water and propane here, voting precinct, party place, and where you gather the local gossip.

Our Street Video

August 2016

Headed for the hills...

August 2016

Our street/airfield.

August 2016