Travel Inn Anchorage

It's been as very long day of travel with a 6:00am flight out of Dayton.  I arrived in Anchorage at 5:30pm local time (it is a 4 hour difference). I decided to try some of the local fare as I was ready for some "real" food and tried a little seafood ...

... intersection and thought it would be great when the mushers went by. So we hung around there for a bit but realized the anchorage police department were probably the most incompetent and unathoritative in the whole US. None of them could get anyone to ...

... . This was our first taste of late sunsets too - around 11pm - and light again about 4.30am. Very cool! 16 July: Anchorage-Talkeetna After a sleepless night because of the train whistles and shunting from the railyards nearby, I got up early to check ...

... beck and call, even just to check on me. Let me say, first class is definitely the way to fly!!!!      In Anchorage, I was to stay the night in a hotel and fly out to Barrow the following day. I had 3 very large boxes, two dog ...

... was the end of the cruise.  We had an early breakfast and waited for our number to be called so that we could catch a bus to Anchorage.  Even though our number was 15, we were second or third cab off the rank.  So we were soon on our way to ...

... Alaska's wildlife, scenery and people. The Earthquake Exhibit focuses on the 1964 earthquake that destroyed much of Anchorage. The exhibit includes a movie presentation of the quake and interactive displays that describe the Richter Scale, the slide at ...

... we crashed down there, they'd never find us". Fortunately, we avoided that fate and arrived without incident in a rainy and gray Anchorage. The travel gods were with us as the courtesy van from our motel was waiting at the curb as soon as we gathered our ...

Day 55 Anchorage - Whittier We collected a travel worn Marian at 1:30am in the morning, from her epic journey, Sydney Brisbane, Los Angeles, Anchorage, a journey of around 24 hours on the trot. She did manage to take time out at LA to take a day room at ...

... the rental car I started shivering. It's cold here! I had to whip out a sweater and coat! On the two hour drive from Anchorage to Seward (I was woozy I was so tired) Scott saw a moose.  He was thrilled. He did his constantly-look-out-the-window ...

... Wrangell St-Elias 700kms and then a South west route of about 400kms to Valdez on Prince William Sound before returning to Anchorage another 300kms approximately. It's a lot of driving and with stops means pretty much every second day is spent on the ...

... . As a result, we were told before the boat left that we were going to go to Scorpion Anchorage on Santa Cruz Island instead. To minimize travel time the Island Packers trips to Santa Cruz normally leave from Ventura and the trips to Anacapa normally ...

... in Kuala Terengganu, all the exciting things were outside of the city and very hard to reach by public transport so Ping Anchorage had the monopoly on doing tours to the sights at extortionate prices.The cheapest was about 100 ringgit. Our budget for the ...

... is a noticable cloud but when the rush to and from work is over the cloud is gone, much like Anchorage.  I was surprised! Our hotel is the Days Inn Forbidden City Hotel.  It is nice, clean, off the main road and  take our airport, ...

...  from Fort Worth), had accompanied the group down from Denali. I had the opportunity to meet them the day before in Anchorage.  I felt so honored when they dedicated a song to me during their performance. I probably shouldn't have gone on the ...

... mushers are considered heroes up here.  There is a ceremonial start to the Iditerod that takes place in Anchorage.  The sleds travel throughout the city to the applause and waves of admiring fans.  Then the restart takes place the next day ...

... we waved goodbye to everyone that morning and the dreary weather did not help. When we returned to Marsh Harbour the crowded anchorage seemed very lonely. Going ashore on a Sunday did not help as everything was closed except a few grocery stores. It was ...

... for quite some time. The several other people came into the hotel; some DOT guys and one woman from the NSB planning office in Anchorage. Laura joined us in the room, telling us events and plans for the villages: an evacuation road to the foothills in Pt. ...

... me that the gold I got was worth $35. I think it was a lie. I saw this type of raw gold sold in bottles, later in Anchorage. Each bottle was sold at $5 and it contained a lot more gold (at least 4 times) than that I got at Eldorado. Another point is that ...

... Indonesia to see it properly as well as visiting Venezuela, New Zealand, Mexico, Antarctica…  Far from satisfying our urge to travel I think that these 200 days have really made us realise how much there is too see – we just need to find ...

... sleep on the plane for the first time ever! :O) As such, none of us are feeling too bad. Food, then bed. We will no doubt be alseep before 9pm - you can tell we are on holiday ;O) Up at 6am for our flight to Anchorage, Alaska. Zzzzzzz ...