Thank you, thank you for all the info. After spending six years in Fairbanks, Alaska and driving the Alcan twice by myself, I'm pretty good at roughing it and adapting. I laugh and say that nowadays my idea of roughing it is a motor home without a vcr. In Fairbanks, we laughed because the first thing we all did when we went "outside" was watch tv, because there were more than two channels, and drink water because it wasn't heady with iron. As I said, I'm pretty adaptable. Just in case, though, I'd like to know about the nearby hotels, also. Anyway, I'm planning to be there and look forward to putting some faces with the names ... jenny