Refrigerator woes :(

9/1/10

Birch Lake in Autumn
Richardson Highway between Fairbanks and Delta Junction

Wow, the first of September! Well, the refrigerator news is not good....it's toast. We drove to Fairbanks Monday and found Alaska RV Repair. They were quite busy and told us with the preliminary work Bosco had done that the only simple fix was that the circut board. They gave us a new one and Bosco installed it and their mechanic inspected his work and all was right except it didn't work. They even told us to wait over night as often it can take up to 8 hours to kick in. It didn't. Our choices then were limited; replace the coil, replace the refrigerator or use ice chests. Shop rates in Alaska $100/ an hour; replacing the coil a 4 hour job, the coil costing about $1000 mostly because of the shipping. So we headed to Fred Meyer and bought a plastic tub that will fit on the shelf in our refrigerator and made it a cool box for salad dressings, ketchup and the like and a ice chest for the items that must be kept really cold. Thank heaven for the freezer. So we spent another night in Fairbanks, made our purchases and came back to Delta Junction for the night and we're headed to Tok today.

As we set up camp in Fairbanks, same site as before right next to the river, we saw Alaskans enteraining themselves as only they can do!