Given a home in Central,AK planning on moving there (Circle: post office, hot)

[ComputerUser000]

I hope megansmom is doing OK as well, I've really enjoyed reading this thread!

[warptman]

They are doing alright. She's had no time to come in and update all of us but will try in the near future. They are trying to find a place closer to Fairbanks so the kids won't be too far from their dad. All is well in their first year up here.

[The Grill God]

Thanks for the update. I was wondering how they were doing.

[Barkingowl]

Originally Posted by warptman

They are doing alright. She's had no time to come in and update all of us but will try in the near future. They are trying to find a place closer to Fairbanks so the kids won't be too far from their dad. All is well in their first year up here.

Warpt, next time you talk ask her if she got her mushing outfit I sent her.

[vpcats]

So what are they going to do with the place they inherited and were fixing up & all? It sounded as if it is so far removed from everything and difficult to get by.

Awwww... I do hope they're doing ok.

[NorthWord]

I've just bumped into this thread, I'll have to sit and read the whole thing later.

Something about the community of Central has a hold on me, on two occasions I've driven all the way out there just for a hamburger. The Steese just encapsulates all that is great about the Interior. When it comes time for me to check out, I plan to do it in Central.

It's truly a great place, everyone should get to see it first hand.

[kittymama]

Originally Posted by stevegayle

She muttered one day that she did not want to go back to Alaska and be nothing again. She works for an Indian Casino here in Arizona. She does marketing and has a BA in ????? Met my son in college in Fairbanks. I think she finished college first and ended up having to find a job in Fairbanks waiting for my son to graduate. She ended up selling cell phones out of Sams club or something like that. She doesn't use her BA at all. Other than to work at marketing at the casino you have to have a BA in anything.
I don't think she was brought up to live Alaska like we brought up our son. Or like we lived. So she sees Alaska totally different than we do.
Sad, she doesn't even like camping. She has only done it once and part way through the night went to a motel.
Different kind of girl.
Just got to keep working on her even though she gets really P O'd at me sometimes.

If one person in the marriage really hates the idea of living in Alaska, I would never recommend it, because this is a hard place to live. Especially, if said person has already lived there for a significant time period before, so actually knows what it is like here. It sounds like if she ever DID move to Alaska, she would be miserable and want to move again in a couple of years. Take it from a woman who has had many fights with her hubby over living in Fairbanks.

[Nancy Marie Steuer]

If you are talking about the village of Central, AK, there is nothing there. All the buisness places are closed up. There is NO GAS station, NO store, No fuel oil business there, No Resturants, No Bar, left in operation in the Village of Central, it is approx 150 miles northeast of Fairbanks, 33 miles south of Circle which is on the Yukon River. NO School open anymore there it would either be home schooling or Circle for a school. The road is open in the winter time and there are approx 100 year around residents.

Central is unincorporated, unorganized and not in a Borough. Taxes are cheap. Can get wood to burn. Lots of native land around so one needs to know where they are going. Lots of Gold Mines around the area as well as Black Diamonds in area.

Two miles in which direction?? Is it out towards Circle Hot Springs? or back towards Fairbanks or towards Circle.

It is very harsh in the winter. The Yukon Quest dog Sled race goes thru that area in February.

The electirc and phone is subduised threw the Tanana Cheifs Conference. Fuel oil now is $.50 more a gallon delivered to Central than in Fairbanks.

There is fishing in the area Moose Hunting, Caribou Hunting, Lots of Blueberrys on Eagle Summit.

[mitgreb]

So no one has taken over since Paul died?

[rosechild]

Originally Posted by Nancy Marie Steuer

If you are talking about the village of Central, AK, there is nothing there. All the buisness places are closed up. There is NO GAS station, NO store, No fuel oil business there, No Resturants, No Bar, left in operation in the Village of Central, it is approx 150 miles northeast of Fairbanks, 33 miles south of Circle which is on the Yukon River. NO School open anymore there it would either be home schooling or Circle for a school. The road is open in the winter time and there are approx 100 year around residents.

Did the Steese Roadhouse close down?