Anchorage sign on 4th Ave by the visitor center….

Tuesday August 10th we carpooled across town to the Alaskan Railroad station. We boarded the train for a 2 hour ride to Whitter. The trip took us along the shore of Cook Inlet, Turnagain Arm and finally through a three mile tunnel to Whitter, a small town right on Blackstone Bay. The tunnel was the weird part….the only way into Whittier, by land, is the tunnel. Cars and trains use the same tunnel !!  of course trains have the right of way. In Whittier we got on a boat which took us around the bay, stopping in several points to view glaciers. The day was rainy so we only got to see the ends, called toes, of the glaciers….but it was still great. In Anchorage we also went to Earthquake Park, visited a museum, ate at the Snow City Dinner, did laundry and observed a constant amount of planes flying at all times. Near Anchorage is the world’s largest float plane base (lake). When we were on the train we passed a housing development, all the houses were connected, in the back yards, by a grass landing strip. In every backyard was a plane.