We were awake at 4 a.m. to get to the airport on time for our flight to Alaska and we arrived at around 11:30 a.m. their time (they are not on daylight savings time). I was dressed in my flip flops, jeans, and light weight jacket but it was rainy and overcast and I was cold. Lots of people told me Anchorage was not cold in the summer but it was. The bus driver said it was 78 degrees and sunny yesterday but I was cold.
The Captain Cook Hotel is beautiful and very close to the Coastal Trail walkway that goes 10 miles at the waters edge with great views. After lunch we took a walk on it and lost track of time and place. We walked almost 6 miles before we made our way back. Everytime we pulled out our map to see where we were, someone would stop to help us. Very nice people!
Anchorage is very much like most cities of about 300,000 people except the baskets of flowers. We saw this in Michigan too. I guess when you have a short growing window, it’s easier to make them look nice.
For dinner we found a little place around the corner from the hotel called the International Hot Dog House complete with buffalo and reindeer hot dogs. I could not bring myself to eat reindeer (it’s just wrong to eat something you name) but I thoroughly enjoyed my buffalo dog.
As you can imagine , we went to sleep early to prepare for another day tomorrow even though it was light outside until after 10 p.m.
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