Hello everybody out there and Internet land. This is Mark reporting from Alaska, Talkeetna, Alaska to be exact.
Today we woke up at our Motel Latitude 62 and walked down the main street and it took us about 12 minutes of walking and we found conscious coffee the only
place that serves breakfast all day. Cause we didn’t get out of there hotel till about 11 AM. There was really no line and we got ourselves a couple
bagel sandwiches and I got iced coffee in Mary got regular coffee. One of the women is served us said during Memorial Day weekend there was a line all day long in this
place. Goddamn I’m happy to be here. Midweek on a quiet day where we just sit inside. Look at all these books like it’s a little mini
bookstore. This is the funniest day we’ve had since we arrived in Alaska. It’s really beautiful. So I’m trying to finish up yesterday’s blog posting but all the stuff doesn’t
download even though my 5G Internet from AT&T is very fast much faster than the WiFi they offer so I’m just using that. I’m sipping my iced coffee. Maybe I’ll go
for a second round. I don’t wanna get a second round but I might. The T-shirts are too small so I don’t think we’re gonna buy any swag here.
We’re going to check the mountaineering school. So that’s what we might do for fun and profit. So we didn’t go to the mountaineering school, which was very interesting. It was
way off the beaten path we needed a GPS to find it in fact. Met this young bad with a really cool T-shirt. You welcomed us in very nicely, and then we met a woman
named Katelynn of all names who guided us around and gave us information and showed us a beautiful frame picture of Denali and some type of graphical maps.
Showed us around and then guided us to the store that dad that sells merch and swag of all different types. Mary and I were very fortunate that we found
the shirt models from last year that they don’t make anymore which had the the AMS logo embroidered. AMS stands for Alaska mountaineering school
they train people and then they guide them to climb Denali. Which is pretty amazing you know I ain’t here in Everest after the higher low rent Sherpa to do
all the work, but apparently they they do that here to keep on they train people how to climb up the mountain. Of course my battery died and I didn’t get
to film much else after the mountaineering school then Mary and I came back. I ordered more coffee and then we went back and mellow it out for a while.
We discussed what we’ll do tomorrow morning and I think we’re gonna go to the same place to conscious Café and get ourselves a nice breakfast before being picked
up by the people there at 10:15. Also, we’re going to grab some dinner pretty soon cause it’s 6:31 PM. Why we decided to go to the same place called
Mountain High Pizza Pie. It was a place we went to last night which served up the delicious margarita pizza pie so we got another margarita
but this time with sausage. The crust is really good on this pizza and it’s not terribly greasy at all. I think the dough in the crust or clutch. We ended up hanging out
there for a while if we decide we take a walk around town as the sun was starting to set. We checked out an old log cabin at the Tina historical Society and
that was interesting. A couple of exhibits there. The air felt really fresh as we were walking around the area. With that saw close-up the Alaska
railroad train that was sitting there. It wasn’t the one they were using. It was one that was for display and it was Britain painted or beautiful Canary yellow.
We looked at that within went to the hippie store has a really well conditioned Volkswagen VW bus. Which was condition it was the same
color the bus Iused to own had a greenish color. It was really well preserved. Meanwhile, it was playing songs from the 60s and 70s that I knew as a kid. We ended
up talking to the proprietor, really nice lady who moved up from California to Alaska when she was in their 20s, then move back to California now
has 2️⃣ properties in Talkeetna and also Palmer. I think she also lived in was selling and ran the historical museum there and also in Palmer Alaska. She’s
quite the entrepreneur. Her husband was born in Nazareth Hospital the same hospital Mary was born in. I was a very interesting conversation. She was one of the Jesus people
back in the day. That’s a phenomenon of hippie, loving Jesus people literally. I don’t know much about her, but they were a thing for sure. We then decided to call an evening since it was starting to get late and we have a glacier landing view of Denali tomorrow morning. They’re gonna be picking us up at 10:15 so we’re gonna have an early breakfast tomorrow. It was a picture perfect day today. The sun was out the majority of the day, which was really nice compared to Anchorage. The first two days we were up in Alaska.
