Three Days in Anchorage
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With a backdrop of the Chugach Mountains, the waters of the Cook Inlet at its doorstep and 21.5 hours of daylight, we were looking forward to exploring Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city.
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North to Alaska - Lewis & Clark, Powered Up & Disappointment
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We certainly learned about Lewis & Clark through the years in our American history classes. We’ve seen historic markers along their route from St. Louis up the Missouri River to the Pacific. It was, however, at Fort Clatsop, their winter shelter for three months from December 1805 to March1806, that we came to realize just what a monumental task Thomas Jefferson had assigned to them and what a tremendous feat they accomplished.
Read MoreNorth to Alaska - The Forest Primeval
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Though Longfellow was describing Acadia in his famous poem, the Redwoods National & State Parks contain primeval forest… 39,000 acres of old-growth redwoods that were growing before any recorded history. A walk among these ancient trees is mind-boggling. Long before Europeans ever stepped foot on this continent, these trees were growing and thriving here. We could see, smell, and touch these millennia-old living things. How humbling.
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