A thousand miles journey begins with a single step... -Lao Tseu...
Denver to Anchorage shows to be about 3200 miles on mapquest so our first step was towards the airport lounge for a drink and some appetizers. We chose to fly up on Frontier Airlines because they have a direct flight from Denver to Anchorage (and the cheapest). The crew has a heck of a sense of humor so except for being a 6.5 hour flight it was reasonably enjoyable.
It was cool to look over the crowd on the plane. There were tons of folks on there headed up here to do nothing more than enjoy the outdoors (but honestly, what else is there to do???)! Tons of fishing rods and backpacks filled the overhead storage bins. I hope those folks have a great time.
The anchorage airport is reasonably small and easy to navigate. We ended up with one rolling duffel and a medium water proof duffel. Bungee-ing the later to the former made for an easy trip down to the car rental place. Car rental at the AK airport is the easiest thing I've ever seen. We were in and out in minutes. Pam's maps got us to Girdwood with no misturns in about an hour. The roads up here are great.
I'm glad we gave ourselves a day to recoup. We arrived at the hotel around midnight and slept till 7ish. Today we're going to drive down to Seward to look around, have lunch and drive back to Girdwood. Nice digs by the way, http://www.alyeskaresort.com
The weather is cloudy and it looks like it'll rain... who knew?!
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