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Happy Solstice!
Jun. 21st, 2006 11:03 amThe icon is from a field near my hometown - Alaskan poppies just hanging out in the breeze, soaking up the sun. Aren't they pretty?
Jun. 21st, 2006
This isn't great, but it's a shot of where I'd be spending tonight if I was up in Fairbanks - The Howling Dog Saloon.
The Dog is legendary. It's not insulated, so they open in May and close in September/October. It's about 11 miles outside of Fairbanks, about 2 miles before the end of any sort of pavement on the haul road north. That's where all of the bikers go, where people who want to dance to good live music go, where the people who are looking for a honky-tonk go. They have the requisite peanut shells on the floor, and all-night volleyball outside. It's decorated with random crap: bras, license plates, vintage photos of the area, T-shirts, an Olympic flag... They now have a motel attached for those who would like to avoid a DUI.
It's a true roadhouse, with that added bit of Alaskan insanity, and it is so much fucking fun.
(ION, I am absolutely in love with the sound of steel guitars. LOVE. Also love dobro. I'd probably be hearing that if I was at the Dog tonight.)
The Dog is legendary. It's not insulated, so they open in May and close in September/October. It's about 11 miles outside of Fairbanks, about 2 miles before the end of any sort of pavement on the haul road north. That's where all of the bikers go, where people who want to dance to good live music go, where the people who are looking for a honky-tonk go. They have the requisite peanut shells on the floor, and all-night volleyball outside. It's decorated with random crap: bras, license plates, vintage photos of the area, T-shirts, an Olympic flag... They now have a motel attached for those who would like to avoid a DUI.
It's a true roadhouse, with that added bit of Alaskan insanity, and it is so much fucking fun.
(ION, I am absolutely in love with the sound of steel guitars. LOVE. Also love dobro. I'd probably be hearing that if I was at the Dog tonight.)
