Planning
Paul and I talked about Alaska for about a year before we actually started planning a trip. Immediately there was a debate about how much time we would spend. Our grand delusions of taking a road trip around BC and up to Alaska all in one go dissolved once we realized that it would take us about 40 hours just to drive directly from Vancouver to Anchorage - and that's if we didn't stop to see anything along the way. Needless to say, Paul and I opted out of the road trip option and hopped a plane directly from Vancouver BC to Anchorage instead. That decision resulted in an extra week spent in Alaska, as opposed to in the car. We also saved a ton of money by not taking our car on the ferry leg of our journey.
Day 1
Descending into Anchorage was fantastic. We could see the Alaska Range in the distance and Paul already had the camera pointed out the airplane window. We had braced ourselves for three weeks of rain (and maybe some snow), but somehow the sun was shining and it was ~60 degrees! This was the beginning of the great luck that followed us throughout our journey. We took a taxi to our gracious hosts' house (an old friend from High School and her husband) and planned our first day in Alaska - touring the state's largest city on bikes.
We used a GPS called SPOT with subscription service to send email to family about our location. Here is the first one.
We used a GPS called SPOT with subscription service to send email to family about our location. Here is the first one.
SPOT Check OK.
Latitude:61.1479
Longitude:-149.8047
Time:08/21/2009 17:00:01 (GMT)
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