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Chapter 2: Journey Begins July 2,2013. Breakfast has always been a big morning thing for me, how can you start your day without a heavy breakfast. The dilemma is to find a good breakfast place in Fairbanks. The first question i ask the person sitting outside the Billies hostel "where can i have good breakfast?". He routed me to Sams Sourdough, the best place i think in Fairbanks. It is about 15 minutes walk from the hostel. As soon as i step outside the hostel i encounter the first creature found in abundance in Alaska "Mosquito's".They are freaking huge. I was always under the impression that people, rats and squirrels were bigger in U.S.A. Well, i will add mosquito's to the list as well. Fairbanks is a small town with a big university. There are basically two buses (red line and blue line) that will take you to wherever you wish to go. Fairbanks is also one of the places where you can actually click a picture next to the Oil Pipeline, besides th...

Wilderness UNLMTD

Chapter 1: Journey to Fairbanks: July 01,2013- Finally it is the day when i embark on this amazing journey from Buffalo, NY to Fairbanks,AK. I am dropped to the airport by this nice friend of mine. I am not a very FB (Facebook guy) but somehow i felt like bragging about this trip.So the first thing i do as soon as i sit, waiting for the boarding announcement, at the Buffalo terminal is update my FB status to "Wilderness Unlmtd". For the first time i feel that i am really prepared, by prepared i mean organized, for this trip. May be that is because i am almost 30 and somehow all the chromosomes or genes or some Biological process forces my brain to be more responsible and BOOM you are a renewed person (Bullshit !!).  I have 2 hrs to kill and so i start by checking Google Maps for Minneapolis. Also, my genuine interest in statistics tells me that all the hot girls fly out of buffalo on weekends and the only people i see at my boarding gate are retired, old an...