When we boarded our motor coach in Valdez, we began hearing about the Alaskan Pipeline. This was something that I knew existed, but I really didn't know much about it. Wendy, our driver/guide, played a video documentary during our bus ride that told the fascinating story of how the Alaskan Pipeline came to be, and the engineering marvels that were required for it to be constructed through some very hostile terrain. It wasn't long before we began glimpsing the Pipeline, which would be our companion along the highway all the way from Valdez to Fairbanks, where it would continue, but we would turn south.
On Sunday afternoon, we took a shuttle from our hotel to a place where we could get up close and personal to the Pipeline and learn more about it via some educational billboards.
The size of the Pipeline is certainly impressive. Here's Debbie for scale!
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