Farewell to Fairbanks

Folks, it's time to leave the tundra.  Turns out that Captain D is not getting deployed after all, so an extra physician is no longer needed in the clinic.  Here's one last view of the hospital at sunset (3:15 pm!) and the intriguing sculpture in the center of the roundabout:  

The lovely fields of snow behind the hospital seen on a rare sunny afternoon:

My last view of Fairbanks from the airplane:

We flew over the Alaska Range which includes Mt McKinley (known here as Denali, the highest mountain in North America, with an elevation of 20,320 ft) just as the tiniest glimmer of sunrise was beginning:

The silhouette of the snow-capped range became more defined as the sunlight began to manifest itself:

And suddenly, just like that, the Puget Sound was peeking out from beneath the clouds: