AN ALASKAN TRIP - 2008 By Daryl Lamar Root A 50th Birthday Celebration. Friday, August 15, 2008 Karen and I wake up at 3:00 a.m. so we can get a quick bite to eat before we head to Philadelphia for the first leg of our flight to Anchorage, Alaska. It was going to be a long day, only made longer by the fact that four hours of sleep isn’t much to go on. Needless to say, we made it to the airport, with plenty of time to spare for our 6:30 flight to Chicago, where we’d catch a connecting flight to our western destination. Till all was said and done, we arrived in Alaska around 2:00 p.m., Alaska time (or 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time). What a relief it was to be back on the ground where
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