City Garden Bed & Breakfast Anchorage

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... to adventure and trouble. I mean you can encounter wild animals, get lost, find complete quiet, and get yourself into trouble if you get dumb. I find in my travels, that no matter how fascinating the art, the history, the beauty of the rural areas, the congeniality of the people, I need to get home to be where I can't control everything, people are few, and the land is wild and clean.

Visitors tell me that we're still friendly people here. I notice it when I return ...

... The easiest way to get there is to book the trip through a local agency. Leaving from Anchorage airport, a first plane takes you to King Salmon in two hours or so. Next, you board a floatplane that glides twenty minutes later on Naknek Lake where brown bears are the first creatures you can see on the shores of the lake! There is plenty of salmon in the lakes and a profusion of berries in the forests so ...

... Don checked in the manager offered to locked them in this shed in the back that he said he had "the ONLY key to" and swore it would be safe. When we got back from dinner Don went to go retrieve it so we could head out early in the morning and low and behold, there was another key that another staff had and they let other travelers use the shed as well...so when they took their stuff, they took ours too. So we filed ...

... Now it's November, the Moose Hunter's have taken our place in the mountain valleys hoping to bag a big one and stock their freezers with fresh meat. With the leaves gone from the trees we can clearly see the mountains from our front picture window. We bought skis at a gear swap and are waiting for a few more inches of powder to try them out. Chris studded his bike tires and continues to ride to work with the mantra "Burn Calories, Not Fossil ...

... of carrying backpacks begins to burn. But with nowhere else to go, we push on. American streets tend to be numbered in the thousands, and, despite Seward's tiny size (smaller than Murray Bridge) the address for our hostel is in the 900's. A quick phone call and we discover that the hostel is actually about a 30-minute walk out of town. Nuts. Seward is the kind of secluded small-town you don't tend to find taxi's flying around, so we knew we'd have a walk ahead of us. As we got to the end ...

... the
highlight of our trip, there many animals here to see in their natural
habitat (not like a zoo) and all the proceeds from the admission ticket
and gift shop purchases go to taking care of them. I even got to feed a
deer. My alaska trip was amazing and I look forward to the day that I
can revisit this beautiful state of wilderness.

... be quite fun and rewarding. I've met many great people staying in the hostel as well as roaming around the city. I am looking very forward to getting out of the major city in Alaska, even though I have had a great time so far. Sorry there aren't any pictures today, but it's been rather drab all day and I haven't seen much that is worth sending off. I'm not sure how much access I'll have over the next couple of days, but I'll put in an update as soon as I can!

... that was literally hanging off the plate. After breakfast we went to buy some souvenirs and also to the Ranger Station where all the climbers check in before they ascend McKinley. The ranger was very nice and showed us a 15 minute video about climbing the mountain. Along the walls were dozens of kerchiefs of the various climbers who had presumably made it to the summit. Went into the small museum and then caught the shuttle back to the lodge. We ...

... waren und einen abstecher zu diesen quellen unternahmen. damals hatten wir ueberhaupt nicht erwartet, dort ein komplett eingerichtetes ferienresort vorzufinden, welches vor ungefaehr 15 jahren verlassen worden war und seither ungenuetzt vor sich hin rottete. gluecklicherweise ist der ort aber noch in recht gutem zustand, und die gebaeude (grosses blockhaus mit kueche und wohnzimmer, schlafcabins, werkstatt, etc.) groesstenteils noch benuetzbar. schon ...