Today I got up at 4:30 AM. Maybe I can upload some pictures before the WiFI clogs up. Yesterday we drove around Anchorage in the morning. We visited the Ulu factory where they make the funny crescent shaped Alaskan knives. We also visited the float plane harbor, saw the bridge to nowhere, visited areas devastated in the March 26,1964, 9.2 earthquake, and visited the Millenium Hotel. The earthquake was very bad and houses in a then newly developed housing tract slid into the bay. In other areas the ground dropped 8 feet allowing salty water to flow in and kill the vegetation.
In the afternoon we drove to Portage Glacier, visited a fish and game packing/processing plant, and visited a wildlife rescue ranch. Near the wildlife rescue area were some cabins destroyed in the earthquake that were still partly visible. At the wildlife area we saw and photographed moose, bear, musk ox, eagles caribou, and owls. Those animals are pretty much the only wildlife we have seen in Alaska so far. Last night we ate at a mexican restaurant. The food was good considering that it must be one of the farthest north mexican places on the continent.
Today and tomorrow are free days. Diana, they want to call the mountain Denali because it is the indian name for it.
Is the bridge tonowhere for real? It was built afterall? How cute that you saw so many wild animals and ate mexican food. Why does even alaska have to be polically correct about the names for places! Are you keeping up with the news and by the way did you vote?
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