Land of the Midnight Sun

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Our trip had come full circle. We had breakfast with Chuck at Gwennie's in Anchorage our first morning here. Then we pulled back into Anchorage just before our late night flight home and had breakfast again at Gwennie's. But we still weren't done with Gwennie's as it turned out. We took a last minute bump as we were ready to board our flight home... it was hard to turn down a free hotel and meals and $800 to wait another day to fly home! The hotel the airline put us up in was just down the street from Gwennie's, so we had breakfast again this morning at Gwennie's. And we're just about to go to Gwennie's for dinner right now before catching our flight tonight. Thanks, Chuck, for introducing us to Alaska and Gwennie's Old Alaska Restaurant!

Jan with Gwennie's Old Roadster



With Alaska's few roads, travel by plane is as common as by car. Alaska's many lakes are all the runway these planes need...



A plane had to make an emergency landing, due to low clouds, on the road outside the lodge where we stayed near Denali. The lodge let him park it in the parking lot until weather had cleared the next day.