Although I had received several warnings before boarding my flight bound for Anchorage, Alaska, my usual optimism told me that surely you cant shut a whole state down for 9 months of the year? Surely there would be hostels open, buses and trains that ran and more importantly other tourists than me? Well, for once I was wrong. Alaska is actually hibernating. No buses, no trains, only a few hostels open and definitely no other tourists. On the bright side, I get to experience the grandness of Alaska all to myself. And grand it is. Twice the size of Texas and with towns that you have to drive 600 miles on a gravel road to get to! And that's not it. Alaska has over 100,000 glaciers (and I thought Fox Glacier was big!) and more than
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