Anchorage, United States Travel Blogs

Alaska: The Final Frontier
May 9, 2008 (36 photos)

... a part of the world I hadn't imagined was out there. Seward, I will never forget. Leah Says: After Seward we headed back to Anchorage for another 3 nights. Unfortunately we couldn't make the most of our time back as I got a nasty cold and spent 1 and ˝ ...

Anchorage
Jun 14, 2006 (8 photos)

... mid-town - very boring and very straight roads - something I think we will have to get used to! Then on to the Anchorage Museum of History and Art. Loads of Native Alaskan Artifacts (including the stuffed bear and moose in the photos and a musk oxen) a ...

Chicago and Anchorage
Jul 10, 2005 (5 photos)

... Railways, quicker than you could save priv pass, she had organized my fellow accountant to take me hiking 50 miles outside Anchorage.The mountains were stunning, there was still snow on them, the lakes were full of glacier ice water which is too cold for ...

Changes in lattitude
Jun 28, 2004 (15 photos)

... into small disgusting globs before freezing. If the fish didn't fall for it I only had myself to blame. We drove down to Anchorage Thursday night with another wedding guest who flew in, some of you know him as Rookie, some as Doug, and soon everyone as ...

Anchorage - day 2
Jun 15, 2006

Alex: Spent the day sorting out the rest of our stay in Alaska and spending stupid amounts of money on tours and buses getting us around. Then realised how much money we had spent while drinking a pint in Humpy's so went back to the hostel and had a soup ...

Travelling - Arrival in Anchorage
Jun 13, 2006

... at 5:30. Flew from Manchester to London (8:00 - 9:00), and then London to Dallas (10:35 - 10 hours, 6 hours behind), Dallas to Anchorage (16:18 - 6:45 hours, 3 hours behind), arriving in Anchorage at 20:00 (local time). So we had a 26 hour day - which was ...

Unexpected Stop for Pie in Anchorage
Jun 18, 2005 (6 photos)

My flight from Seattle to Fairbanks was a one-stop. Just a few minutes in Anchorage, the itinerary stated. My seatmate on the first leg of the trip was a dignified, tall lady wearing a gray tailored suit. She and her husband were headed for Anchorage and a ...

Alaska
Aug 1, 2003 (5 photos)

... the group yet so was in no man's land. Everyone made me feel really welcome and I felt instantly settled. We mooched around Anchorage for a while before driving to the Denali National Park where we set up camp. Denali is 6 million acres large! The ...

Trip to Anchorage
Jan 27, 2008 (2 photos)

... hazmat!  Anyhow I got my first experience with homeland security and hubby lost one butane lighter.  My flight to Anchorage was great.  When I arrived I took a cab to a fantastic, swanky hotel called the Captain Cook.  It is a 3 ...

This is a cool resource
Mar 3, 2009

Our trip has not yet officially started, but there are some very cool resources if anyone ever does decide to go to India, or even if you are a teacher, then there are some cool lesson plans.  Visit http://www.pbs.org/thestoryofindia/teachers/ ...

The Trip back to Anchorage
Aug 28, 2008 (11 photos)

... day in Alaska.  We drove from Denali National Park, stopped in Palmer, AK prior to heading back to our accommodations in Anchorage.   We had breakfast in Denali at the Old Salmon Bake Restaurant.  Some of us had the sourdough pancakes and ...

8 inches of snow and leaving just in time.
Oct 30, 2006 (10 photos)

... good season overall, spent the later portion cruising around Idaho, Nevada, and at the end, Northern California. When I got back to Anchorage mid October, Dad and I spent 3 days on goat hunting on the Kenai Peninsula. Was a great time, except the hike up ...

Winter and Summer Solstice in Anchorage AK 2009
Dec 22, 2008 (6 photos)

... were taken before 12:30 . . . on Cambel Airstrip Rd. off Tudor near Muldoon. There was thick fog almost everywhere in the Anchorage/Matanuska Valley area . . the clear sky was the exception. The spot in the sky above the bridge is the sun through the fog, ...

Anchorage, Alaska
Aug 4, 2009 (36 photos)

... jewelry and garments.  We drove through the industrial part of town, some neighborhoods, and past the oldest cemetery in Anchorage where whale hunters are buried under whalebone gravemarkers. The Ulu Factory was a place some of our group wanted to ...

From Anchorage with new picture link
Jun 5, 2007

... small ice bergs scattered without.        After a 6 hour drive on Sunday I am now in Anchorage, just finished up Bear and Firearms safety training, and heading into USCG Boat safety and operating training.  I have done the ...

Potter Marsh
Sep 26, 2008 (2 photos)

Potters Marsh is an artifical wetlands created just sounth of Anchorage when the Alaska Railroad was put in between Anchorage And Seward. It is now the the breeding area for a wide variety of water fowl and a resting area for migrating birds.

Train to Whittier
Jun 4, 2008

... from the edge of Prince William Sound through the Chugach mountains winds through a series of tunnels, and connects Whittier to Anchorage only 45 miles to the south. Travelers also have the option of taking the famed Alaska Railroad from Whittier all the ...

Anchorage
Jun 10, 2008 (2 photos)

Anchorage, die grösste Stadt Alaskas. Da wir hier den ganzen Tag beim Shopping verbracht haben, gibt es hier leider nicht so viele Fotos.

Seward and Anchorage
Oct 20, 2006 (21 photos)

Hey, Took the weekend to drive down to Anchorage and take part in a boat tour in Seward. It's absolutely beautiful on the southern tip of Alaska. We stayed in a Hostel owned by a couple from Argentina. They were very friendly and helpful. The first night ...

Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Aug 5, 2009 (3 photos)

... turned out, the highway was closed for more than five hours. These are the details from the local newspaper: ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- It's happened again: Another deadly accident on the Seward Highway, this one claiming the lives of two Kenai teenagers ...

Back Home
Jul 9, 2009

Aman:     Upon getting home, the first thing I was struck by was the cleanliness.  Not to say that India is a dirty country, it just needs to spend more time caring for, and cleaning, its public places.  Personally, I think the ...

Stop Over in Anchorage
Jan 18, 2007

1 hour stopover in Alaska to gas up and cleen up the plane a litte bit. The flight is tough..and not even half of it is over yet....

Anita Arrives!!!
Feb 20, 2005 (19 photos)

... out things were. Wednesday February 23rd Anita and I drove and walked around in the downtown/city business center of Anchorage, checking out shops. Thursday February 24th I took Anita out to the shooting range to do some rifle shooting. I ...

Anchorage, Alaska
Jul 24, 2009 (3 photos)

... not resist. How many pictures does she have of that mountain? Who knows. It's Friday and here we are in Anchorage. We are going to spend the night here at the Microtel Inn near the airport because they take beagles. Val is in heaven because she ...

The Dinner Train
Jul 12, 2005

... , dinner was served downstairs next to a train gift shop. There was a full kitchen, which meant real food. There was also an observation deck with rails. We got off in Anchorage and I found a one stop souvenir shop and picked up $30 worth of souvenirs.

Leaving cold and clear Anchorage
Jan 6, 2009 (7 photos)

It sure was cold this morning, but the sun came up and put a golden glow on the mountains. We flew west over the Alaskan Alutian islands and south of the Russian islands. It was a nice day when we landed in Narita, Japan and warmer than Alaska!

Last night in Alaska
Jul 11, 2009 (5 photos)

... ;  Had lunch in Wasilla, the home town of Sarah Palin.  Wasilla is also unremarkable. Dropped my sister at the Anchorage airport, and then drove north along the Glenn Highway to Palmer.  It is now almost 11pm and the sun is still shining.

Eskimo Potato
Jul 24, 2009 (3 photos)

Eskimo Potato This is another plant in the Pea/Fabaceae family along with the Lupine. It looks very much like what we call Vetch which is also in that family. Eskimo Potato grows profusely in Denali Park and Preserve. However, at lower elevations for ...

Back to Reality
May 31, 2008

We ended a spectacular trip on the river but it wasn't quite the end of our vacation.  We spent a few days in Prescott, decompressing. We have family there, and hope to be retiring there in a couple of years.  ... Then, it was back home to ...

Denali to Anchorage
Jun 12, 2009 (4 photos)

... night the wind was really blowing; got up and pulled in the bedroom slide because it was making so much noise. The drive to Anchorage was cloudy and overcast so the views weren't great.  It was still a nice drive though because the road runs along the ...