It’s only been a few days but we’re having a FANTASTIC trip. The weather has been phenomenal and the views are majestical.
Thursday night we finalized our packing. This is both a huge amount of stuff and an absolutely minimal amount of stuff considering we’re going to be out for months!
At 4am Friday morning we set off for Dulles in our monster-SUV.
Bill dozed on the flights, Giselle binged a ton of movies. When we got to Anchorage mid-afternoon we were utterly gobsmacked by the views from the terminal.
Our hotel shuttle worked perfectly, and then we got organized and slept for about 10 hours (still waking up about 6am local time).
Anchorage has so many beautiful bike paths winding through the city, we didn’t have any trouble getting out of town.
So many of the highways have separated bike roads and even when we ride on the road the shoulders are wide and well-maintained.
The ride up Hatcher Pass was a ton of work. A slow slog. But we made it, partly due to the encouragement of a friendly Alaska State Park Ranger we kept bumping into.
Our photo drone named GlaDOS did a great job with our first video (which we sent out earlier), and we’re slowly getting to know her foibles. At one point she was “tracking” a pebble instead of Giselle and just hovered in mid-air which raised someone’s frustration. It was all worked out and we’ll find new problems next time. But hopefully have more great videos too.
We’re spending the night in Talkeetna and have lucked out with fabulous views. More pics from our big camera eventually. But not today.