Drive to Anchorage
We left about 8:30 in the morning. Partly cloudy. Pretty road (all roads are pretty here).
Couple of sights along the way.
There is a state park about 100 miles south of Denali NP that has two areas that have excellent views of Mt. McKinley. No luck at either spot. Clouds covered the mountain in both places.
Denali is behind the clouds in the center of the picture.
Ditto
We sure lucked out yesterday.
The Parks Highway that we traveled on is mostly a two lane road with not much traffic.
Road north of Wasilla
As it gets to about 45 miles from Anchorage things change. More traffic and the road changes to four lane expressway. About 30 miles out it is four lane and then six lane freeway. Lots of traffic and lots of roadside buildings. Far different from two weeks ago when we were the only vehicle on the road in a wilderness. Eagle River is a bedroom community about 12 miles north of Anchorage. It has lots of trees but also lots of development.
We have friends here. Have not seen them for over 40 years since Air Force days. They graciously invited us to park the carbus in their driveway and turned their lives over to entertaining us. Seeing them was as though there had been no separation. Very comfortable. They packed us into their car and whisked us off on a brief tour of Anchorage to get our bearings.
Captain Cook
Anchorage at 6:00 PM (looking into sun)
Dinner and lots of talking and suggestions of things to see.
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