Super 8 Anchorage

This will be the travel blog for my Paramedic Internship. Where am I going? Conroe, Texas in Montgomery County Hospital District! My friends were nice enough to create me a travel blog when they went to Italy (A trip I couldn't go on because I went to ...

... yet, we ventured into Earthquake Park on the outskirts of Anchorage.  It is from here that the most famous pictures of Anchorage are taken, showing off Cook Inlet, the city skyline, and the Chugach Mountains beyond.  We watched a cow moose and ...

... in the context of the university and the two book stores which has led me to the most interesting parts of this town. Anchorage is in a super location because it is just north of the Kenai (pronounced keen-eye) Peninsula. Having spent the last two days ...

... bike, we went back to the RV for the night where we washed some clothes, blogged, cooked a pasta meal, and relaxed. Overall, Anchorage is a pretty cool mid-sized American city with almost everything you need. The best part about it is the bike trails - ...

... and then there's a short section that is steep and requires scrambling. The views up top- great! You can see the Chugach range, Anchorage, and Cook Inlet. Nice, heh? And it was warm! Warmer than it ever got last summer! That's about all I have to say ...

... muss. Ich lag richtig. Yasmin kam, wie viele andere Deutsche die ich bereits getroffen hatte, aus Hamburg. Zusammen liefen wir bis Anchorage Hut. Auf den letzten Metern hatte ich jedoch das Gefühl, das hinter mir einer her läuft und ständig Steine in ...

... 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 ...

... subsistence living.  But probably won't be our first choice. So after more hiking around, we are now back in Anchorage sorting out some last minute admin before Central America.  We are both really sad to leave, as it has been wicked, ...

... the tunnel, I jumped on my bike and made my way north.  Covering the quick 70km between Whittier and Anchorage was done in the sun and I met this super nice Dutch couple on bicycles, freshly retired, starting on a 9 months journey from Prudhoe Bay to ...

... , you should try it some day. Its now been almost 7 hours since we left Homer, and by the time we reach Anchorage a 4.5 hour ride turns into 8.5 hours after stopping at teh local supermarket to pick up some king crab and a couple of steaks for a ...

... . Really good hearted dogs that work hard no matter how hard it gets. They've been around a long time!" The picture in the Anchorage Daily News showed #48 crossing the finish line with one his dogs, Flame, riding IN the sled. Babe, the lead dog, ...

... room… Finally we found Todd’s room and I climbed through the window, ran downstairs and let him in.  How the cops didn’t get called is a mystery.  I guess this type of shit happens all the time in Anchorage!  See ya ...

... I walked the couple of miles back to the ship with Dougal to reboard for our final night before our disembarkation in Anchorage. We had just been commenting on how gargantuan the local raven population were (these birds made most of the passengers ...

... schooler and san francisco is really easy to get around on public transport Kimberly'sreally flat driving across nevada and utah is super flat salt flats we didn't stop to take the really spectacular white wash photos, but these are the utah ...

... you could say we kind of caught it when they handed it over the side to us. We passed up South Rutland because the anchorage was pretty unprotected (there would have been a lot of rolling if the winds changed) and headed for North Cinque. North Cinque ...

... weeks. Two weeks ago, I arrived at Hong Kong airport, jet lagged after two days suspended over the Pacific Ocean, laying over in Anchorage and Taipei. Kevin Claus, bud par excellence, met me at the 'port and we left driving on the wrong side of the ...

... JFK and his family could be quickly moved to Peanut Island from their nearby vacation home in Palm Beach, not far from our anchorage, in the event of a nuclear catastrophe. Our guide Joe said that Kennedy visited the bunker at least twice. And here we ...

1st night hotel before picking up RV next ...

This is a super anchorage. Langør was an important port during the Anglo Danish war at the beginning of the 19th century and apparently, was equally important to the Vikings. Be that as it may, the key point that Helen insists that I bring out, is that ...

... We had to decide today what direction we were going from Tok.  We were so played out yesterday we considered just heading to Anchorage and then turning around.  We met a guy when stopped at the flag lady.  He is headed to Deadhorse.  ...