Anchorage

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We have spent the last several days with Noel and Sue at thier home in Anchorage. We have enjoyed taking the time to unwind from the road trip. After our fishing trip, we have decided to rearrange the trip. We are going to leave here and head towards Inuvik. That is at the end of the Dempster Highway, 500 miles of dirt road(1000 if you count round trip). We went Downtown the other day and visited the museam. Yesterday we drove out to the small town of Hope Alaska. It is across the bay from Anchorage.
By the way, when you look at the Glacier pictures, it is not mounds of dirt. The ice flows down and pushes the rock and dirt ahead of it. As the glacier recides, the ice is covered in a thin layer of rock.
Saturday Ed is playing golf, then we are back on the road on Sunday. We have logged over 5,000 miles already!
There are flowers everywhere here. Because of all of the sun and all of the rain, the flowers are gigantic. Here are some pictures of the begonias where we had lunch. It is hard to show a perspective. But, the flower boxes were about 3 feet square. The flowers were about 4" around. When we were in

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Photos

The Bake Shop
Giant Begonias

Turnagain Bay
From Hope, AK