Saturday, August 21, 2004 – Today was our last day in Alaska, so we wanted to make it count. Mom slept in while Dad, Jeff and I decided to wake up early to go cycling. We went downtown and rented some bikes. I rented a road bike, while […]
Friday, August 20, 2004 – The next morning we checked out of the Talkeetna Alaskan Lodge. We had to head back south towards on Highway 3 toward Anchorage, but we had a number of interesting sights to see along the way. At Willow, we exited Highway 3 on […]
Thursday, August 19, 2004 – On Thursday morning, we had to say goodbye to Denali National Park. We drove south on the George Parks Highway, also know as Highway 3, through Cantwell. Then we headed to the adventure town of Talkeetna. Talkeetna is a colorful little town that […]
Wednesday, August 18, 2004 – The next morning, Dad and Jeff woke up early to go tour the park. Believe it or not, I talked mom into white water rafting on the Nenana River near the park entrance. This would be her first time ever rafting … and […]
Tuesday, August 17, 2004 – In the morning after breakfast, we grabbed our boxed lunches and headed into Denali National Park. For an early morning guided bus departure that would take us on a tour of the park. Denali is quite different than most national parks in the […]
Monday, August 16, 2004 – The next morning, we decided to visit the Ice Museum in downtown Fairbanks before leaving the city. The museum preserved the ice sculptures created for the previous winter’s ice festival. The sculptures represented everything from miners to bears to eagles. The artistic work […]
Sunday, August 15, 2004 – This morning, Dad dropped Jeff and me off at the Fairbanks airport. Jeff and I took an Alaska Airlines 737 cargo/passenger flight on a one-day tour to the northernmost city in the world – Barrow, Alaska. It was expensive, but we thought this […]
Saturday, August 14, 2004 – The next morning after breakfast, we toured the Fairbanks visitor center. It had a grass layered roof with plants grow outside on top of it! Then we headed south back to the town of North Pole. We saw Santa inside and one of […]
Thursday, August 12, 2004 – After checking out of our hotel, we packed up the Durango and drove north back on Highway 1 and later interstate A-1 through Anchorage. North of Anchorage the A-1 becomes the Glenn Highway along the drive to Palmer. We stopped in Palmer, home […]
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 – The next morning we woke up and headed down to the waterfront in Seward. We booked a cruises with Major Marine Tours on the boat, Kenai Star. The boat would took us on a four-hour journey into Kenai Fjords National Park. As we […]
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 – The next morning we headed back up Highway 1. We stopped at Anchor Point, North America’s most westerly highway point for photos. We saw beautiful, but also dangerous, Mt. Redoubt in distance. The 10,197 foot is the highest summit in the Aleutian Range, […]
Monday, August 9, 2004 – The next morning, Jeff and I woke up and ate breakfast before walking down to the piers. We decided to go sea kayaking for the first time. Our guide, Allison, took us on her small motorboat called the Harloquin, to a point across […]
Sunday, August 8, 2004 – This morning we got in our Dodge Durango and headed down the A-3 south. As we crossed on to the Kenai peninsula, we headed south and west. In the town of Cooper’s Landing, we stopped for lunch at Sal’s for some fish sandwiches. […]
Saturday, August 7, 2004 – When we woke up, we had brunch at the Sunrise Grill & Pancake House off Highway 1, also known as Interstate A-3. After driving south, we approached Turnagain Arm, an eastern arm branching off the Cook Inlet. It is one of two branches […]
Friday, August 6, 2004 – I always dreamt of traveling up to Alaska. This year, it was time to make it happen. What better way than to travel not only with Jeff, but also Mom and Dad? After reading up quite a bit for weeks about the 49th […]
On Sunday, August 11 – After breakfast, we drove by the famous Stanley hotel in Estes Park before beginning our tour of Rocky Mountain National Park. We entered the national park at the east side Fall River park entrance. Like many visitors, we spent most of our park […]
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