Topic: travel
Alaksa is one of the most interesting states I've visited. I arrived in August 1990, on a warm sunny day. Being an 11 year old idiot, I was unprepared for the nice weather and left the airport bundled up, while those around me were in shorts and t-shirts. We spent about a week there, based in Anchorage, but we did a few nights at a cabin at Denali National Park. At Denali, we did the "safari" bus ride into the interior of the park. Along the way I saw a bear on a distant ridge and scads of caribou. in Anchorage, we visited the zoo, the science museum, and Earthquake Park. Earthquake park was once a residential neighborhod. In 1964, it was destroyed by the massive earthquake; hence the name. Today, visitors can see the rooves of houses sticking out of the ground. Two excursions from Anchorage: visiting a glacier and panning for gold. Somewhere along the road the parallels the Cook Inlet, we were treated to a pod of beluga whales. I hope to return to Alaska next summer, this time on a cruise through the Inside Passage.
