Awesome! And Fairbanks is a totally different animal. Haven't been there yet. That's a future summer destination. I get almost a month off at Christmas, but -50 scares me a tad. They jokingly say Anchorage is "300 miles from Alaska". Flying there for Thanksgiving. Restaurants!!I missed being born in Alaska by 3 months. My parents had very good jobs in Fairbanks. My mom refused to have me there. My father said if he had known Alaska was to become a state down the road, they never would have left. I’m glad they did. I don’t like cold weather.…….period!! 72 degrees and sunny in So Cal works for me just fine. I’ve never shoveled snow a day in my life.