Anchorage
Travel Blogs from Anchorage, United States
Alaska: The Final Frontier
... 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 ½ ...
Anchorage
... via 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 ...
Up North in Anchorage Alaska
After a long day of traveling we arrived in Anchorage, the biggest city of Alaska with around 400,000 “Anchoranians”. Life must be harsh down here in winter surrounded by snow covered mountains, and a muddy bay in front of it. We arrived ...
Chicago and Anchorage
... Alaskan Railways, quicker than you could save priv pass, she had organised 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 ...
Changes in lattitude
... 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 ...
Anchorage - day 2
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
... 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 ...
The end of an adventure
... I was torn between wanting to go home and not wanting the trip to end, it was an odd feeling. Lynn had booked the Motel 6 in Anchorage on the internet from Hotel North Pole two days ago, and Lou had programmed it into his Zumo, so we rode straight there ...
Unexpected Stop for Pie in Anchorage
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 ...
Captain Cook In Common (but not much else!).
... didn't previously know. The guide was dressed in the era and was delightfully entertaining. Avan celebrated his birthday in Anchorage with a morning hike, a fabulous fish lunch and then a therapeutic massage in the afternoon. Phone calls and emails ...
Alaska
... 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 ...
This is a cool resource
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 ...
The Trip back to Anchorage
... 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.
... a 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 ...
Winter and Summer Solstice in Anchorage AK 2009
... 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
... 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
... with 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 ...
Anchorage, Seward and Wasilla Alaska
... , got a shot at the vice-presidency in 2008. I spent some nights at a place called Chilkoot Charlie's a bar everyone in Anchorage knows about. Great deals. 1.00 drafts on nearly every imaginable type of beer. All the good ones. Like about 150 to choose ...
Potter Marsh
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
... 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
Anchorage, die grösste Stadt Alaskas. Da wir hier den ganzen Tag beim Shopping verbracht haben, gibt es hier leider nicht so viele ...
Seward and Anchorage
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 ...
Alaska Day 6 - Déjà vu & au revoir, Alaska
... checking out the cruises and tours that go by Whittier. There is a 26 glacier cruise that operates out of Anchorage (Phillips Cruises and Tours), visits Whittier, Prince William Sound, and accesses Barry Arm and College Fjord, getting right up on ...
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
... 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
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
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 ...
Anita Arrives!!!
... 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
... she could 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 ...
The Dinner Train
... , 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 ...
Leaving cold and clear Anchorage
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 ...

