As we drove today, we simply didn't know which way to look. Both sides, front and back the scenery was like nothing I have seen before. Parts of the rockies are like this but Alaska is soooo much bigger, wider, deeper and huger than anywhere else I have been. I just wish there was a way to describe it but there isn't...so I am not going to say it anymore! Just look at the pics I put on fb...even that doesn't really convey its true beauty here.
So, hmmmmmmm, if I am not going to talk about the scenery that just leaves people stories. I have lots all bottled up but they aren't very nice and I think my old life coach has found his way here and I don't think he would approve of my take on humanity in general. We have run into some wonderful kind interesting people...well no not really. I find that getting too chummy with people you are travelling with is just too exhausting. You either end up hiding out in your room, or you end up ducking and running. Just say hi and move on, how hard is that anyway? On Wednesday we get back on a ship and cruise back to Vancouver. It's going to be hard. Out here in big old Alaska, no matter how many people there are here, you just don't see them. You can stop in the middle of the road or a bridge for five minutes to take pics and nobody comes along. I LOVE it!!!
The trip down from Healy was good. It rained, it sunned, it rained, it sunned. We saw Denali park again and we saw a lady moose up close. Every time we stopped for anything the mosquitos would eat us alive. They are BIG and plentiful! We stayed in Wasilla and I had to sit on Bill to keep him from going out to hunt for Sarah Palin. Hahaha. The motel that I had booked ages ago was very odd but clean...and thats what counts.
Last night in Wasilla we had dinner in what was called an Asian Fusion restaurant on a lake edge. It was so good...won tons, duck rolls, tempura prawns to die for, s/s chicken, tempura halibut...mmmmm so good.
Tonight we are in a teeny tiny town of 400 people, spread out over 400 acres. There are about eight buildings spread over 3 miles. Attached to our hotel is a cafe. At 5:30 we wandered in to get some dinner. The native girl working there met us at the door and took us to our seats and asked what we would like to drink. Alaskan Amber, Bill says and before I could get anything out she tells us that this is a "dry" town. Wow!!! I have never been in a dry town before. So happily we ordered diet cokes. We proceeded to have a fantastic dinner cooked up by a gigantic native lad with three gigantic bear claws hanging off his gigantic neck.
After dinner we went for a drive down the highway towards Valdez. We went into a wee place called Copper Centre. What a place!! I got some pretty good pics of old trucks and falling down log cabins. There are a lot of those around. Everything over here on this side of Alaska feels very desolate, empty, and defunct. When the Coquihalla was built, the Canyon went through a bad decline. Places became ghost spots. The same thing happened here. The highway through here used to be the only highway, and the Alaskan highway and pipeline were going in so things were bustling. Then those projects ended and they put a more direct route in to Fairbanks from Anchorage and everything over here has fallen by the wayside. But holy moly it sure is beautiful!!
So before I go off ranting about that again, I shall sign off. I promise that tomorrow night it will not be about Alaska at all. We are going back over what we saw today so no need to say anything. I have a few people stories...we met/saw some real doozies this time on the cruise, and we were with them waaaaaaay too long. So until tomorrowttyl
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