Sunday, June 28: First Day in Poway

Good day everybody out there in the East Coast, West Coast, and Alaska. We slept in today because of being tired and I had my first good night. Sleep in two days. Turns out Alice wasn’t free today. She found out she had to work. So Maryann and I had breakfast. Mary cooked up a nice batch of eggs, which are very tasty and then I’m just sitting here in the kitchen looking at various social media. I found this on Instagram about a cartoon I watch when I was really young called Kimba the White Lion. God, I haven’t heard that theme song in 50 or 60 years. It’s been forever. I can’t believe I just saw it on Instagram people bring up this old stuff constantly. It’s pretty amazing. Well, we heard from someone back in Philly that the heat wave is about to hit. And I looked on the weather and it’s gonna hit 102° Thursday and Friday this week just in time for us to get back to Philly. Boy we go from 60° in in Alaska to 102°. That’s an endless summer I’ve ever heard ofone. Anyhow, Mary &, I went to the target and we noticed that the Starbucks on the side was closed down because of renovations. We bought more coffee cereal, yogurt, bananas, etc. We came back and Alice was lying down after working so we decided that we would just do takeout rather and go out to dinner. We ordered Indian food, which is very tasty. Then we all was lazy and just did her own thing on her phones and booked, etc. It was a very relaxing day for sure.

Saturday June 27: Leaving Anchorage Flying to Powayy

Good day everyone from Costa coast from Alaska to New Jersey. it’s a rainy gray day in Anchorage, Alaska temperature approximately 55°. We met up with Hannah at the coffee shop called Fire Island Coffee. We got Hannah caught up in our trip through the interior of Alaska. She had seen pictures, but we told her the behind-the-scenes story of seeing moose the various hotels and and recommendations if she should ever go to Talkeetna, which I think she would like you totally appeal to her outdoorsy camping interest, etc. Anyway, we had some delicious coffee. She helped us navigate the long line and saved a table for us. We hung out for a while and then we gave her stuff back including her bear spray and we’re ready to go to the Car Rental place to drop off the car and head to Anchorage international airport. We drove to the Rental Car Pl. and successfully checked out the car without any hitch. In fact, we made nice conversation with the guy behind the counter and a fellow travelers flying on the same flight as we are. He invited us to board his Uber since he was taking the same flight to the airport, which was really cool. Well, we passed the time.  I found some Pepsi somewhere in the airport and we’re just about to lift off at 3:50 PM. That’s the plan LIFT off but I’m sure it’ll be closer to 4 PM. Still figuring out how if the WiFi is available on this plane. Our flight was delayed because the food hadn’t arrived for catering. It’s 432. We’re just about to lift off. Will we arrive pretty late around 1015 hours pick us up which was really nice of her and then we went to the In-N-Out Burger because it was so late. It was the only place it was open and there was a huge line of cars for that place we got some food we ate and then we headed to bed because it was pretty late. 

Friday, June 26: leaving Talkeetna. Back to Anchorage

Good morning everybody. After not such a great sleep for both of us. We got up checked out of the Latitude 62 and walked towards Conscience Café. We hung out there for a while and that was nice. We had a regular Sunrise sandwiches and coffee. We enjoyed that thoroughly anyhow we took care of mother nature, and then we headed out to the car to do some driving Anchorage at the Puffin Inn, which is about 2️⃣ hours away. Why we drove the 2+ hours straight down to Anchorage and the puffin Inn is fairly far from the rental car rental place which we drove right by on fifth Street. We also drove by the Starbucks we went to and the restaurant the diner we went to which was modern looking with modern prices. We drove them to the puffin Inn and this is the fanciest place. We stayed in. They have a front desk and charge more for the interior parts and then there’s the Motel section which is a little bit cheaper. We’re trying to get settled so we can jump out of here and leave as quickly as possible. We still have to return Hannah stuff that she lent us, get something to eat and put gas in the car so we can drop it off with the full tank. We then rearrange stuff to get ready for tomorrow and we decided we’d relax in our nice cozy little room. Then we’re gonna eat somewhere but I think the Indian restaurant is gonna be a nice delight. We also have to hear from Hannah about when we can drop stuff off at our place. We had borrowed some things like bear spray. Anyhow, after we got organized, Maryann, I just slept because we were both very tired. We both didn’t sleep all that great last night, but we enjoyed the fresh Alaska air for for certain. Any anyhow we invited Hannah and Tory to meet us for dinner she came back to they had already eaten and they invited us to meet him for breakfast. We said 10:30 AM considering we have to fly out tomorrow and return the car. Mary and I are heading headed for the Indian place. I decided to get gas so I don’t have to think about it when I return the car tomorrow. She’s gonna get some water. It’s at 6:42 PM.