Travel Inn Anchorage

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is ...

... 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 ...

... has already begun in Alaska and the yellow leaves of the birch trees illuminate the countryside. The bus had to stop several times because a bear or a moose were crossing the road which ends at the refuge built on a knoll that overlooks the Valley. After a quick picnic, we walked down right into the Valley and soon reached impressive layers of pumice through which the Utak River carved its way. You then ...

... a movie about the 1964 9.2 Anchorage "Good Friday" earthquake (the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America). Then – at 7 pm with the sun still high in the sky – we went to Downtown Bikes and rented two bikes. Despite not having ridden a bike since elementary school, I had a blast. We rode our bikes a couple of miles to watch the salmon running upstream (and the dozens of fishermen trying to ...

... on it! Creating a forever changing winter ice sculpture! Lousac Library in Anchorage, Alaska has just such a fountain . . . This is an ice fountain in Anchorage Alaska, at the Lousac Public Library . . . In the summer it is a mild mannered fountain . . .pumping water . . . pretty . . .but snooze. In the winter ...

... partition, sheet, towel, sun shield, changing stall. In some countries men wear these to religious events. Pepto bismol tablets: works for diarrhea, nausea due to car or sea sickness but don't knock you out so you won't get robbed on the bus, heartburn, and as a protective coating for your digestive track (according to the md) -you can find things like sun screen and bug dope ...

... and then I was no longer able to connect to my email account. The entire lobby was decorated with "stuffed" animals such as bears and goats, shielded in the huge glass cases on the wall (by the way, the lobby also has skins/furs of various other Alaskan animals on display in glass case as well). During the short period of my stay in the corner of the lobby trying fanatically to connect to any network, there were constantly people posing ...

On our last day, back in Anchorage, we took a tour around the city,
rented a car and drove along the seward scenic hwy, visiting the Alaska
Wildlife Conservation Center. This is a wildlife refuge for the animals
native to alaska that for one reason or another cannot be returned to
the wild, so they make this their home. I have to say this ...

... this huge waterfall of chocolate. Wouldn't let me put my head under it though. Round the corner was a reindeer petting area with 4 raindeer. We went into the pen which was quite muddy (I only hope it was cause of the rain) and fed the reindeer, there antlers still had velvet over them. 

... and their faithful hard-driving dogs. The Iditarod is a commemoration of those yesterdays, a not-so-distant past that Alaskans honor and are proud of. Anchorage is the starting line -- a city of over 250,000 people, street lights, freeways and traffic. From there the field of dog teams which grow in number each year, runs to Eagle River, Checkpoint # 1. After a restart in the Matanuska Valley at Wasilla, the mushers leave the land of highways and bustling activity ...