Good day everybody today is Thursday our last full day here in Takeetna Alaska. We slept into a bit close to 11 AM which felt really good after the
exhilarating day flying over mountains and seeing Denali and landing on a glacier. That was a thrill of lifetime that’s for damn sure I couldn’t believe all the
good pictures. Both of us were very prepared and had plenty of battery life so we wouldn’t run out of
batteries or some other iPhone stuff. Any way we got up and went to our favorite breakfast spot consciousness café. We had our sunrise sandwiches. The bagels came from Costco,
but they tasted really fresh like they made him made them themselves. Well, we were at the breakfast place. We saw a bunch of Mexican people wearing Mexican
World Cup T-shirts. They were all from Guadalajara Mexico. They seem to be enjoying themselves very much and sat as much. We ended up
hanging around for quite a while and saw some tour people leave and we split a second Sunrise sandwich together that was very tasty and I had my second.
iced coffee After that, we went towards the river and saw where they were delivering the rocks that we saw rumbling by us on this big truck. They were
restoring land and protecting land from the river, which was eating away at the landmass there’s a special name for it, but I for the life of me don’t remember. We then
went to the vintage store with a very nice woman that we visited twice before I ended up finding a really cool shirt for Alice and we thought about buying
another one which was Star Wars themed. That’s a very enjoyable place to go. The next stop that we went to was Negley‘s store. This place had
all kinds of knickknacks. It felt like a frontier grocery store had a little bit of everything had a lot of Alaska memorabilia and authentic Alaska things like pelts
and the story of how the store caught on fire in 1997. The firefighters had to put the fire out in 30 below zero temperatures yikes! When I ended up getting
a diet Pepsi there and I enjoyed going in there again it’s such a funky place that you do not see outside of Alaskan in my opinion. The next stop was
Talkeetna Historical Society. This place had an eight dollar tour because we were both over 62. We saved two dollars each. First time I got geezer prices. Anyway,
the lady was very nice and welcoming, and we went and went to the tour, went to one building and they went and saw some artifacts and then we
to the second building and they had a video of people climbing up Denali and what it took to climb Denali plus flags of parties who actually succeeded in climbing
Denali. When we came out of there, the lady told us how did you feel that earthquake.? I said what earthquake? Anyhow, a 3.4 Richter scale
size earthquake, which was about 5 miles away. And we didn’t feel it or hear it only because we were really preoccupied in the video was running
on loop. Then I remembered Anchorage had a really bad earthquake in 64. Not sure how I remember that but there’s an earthquake museum in Anchorage.
If we have any time we might check out. That was a fun but exhausting trip I mean time at the museum. We spent a lot of time in there. We got our moneys
worth on that for sure. After that, both of us were either dehydrated hungry or both because the sun was pretty bright and it’s very dry here. There’s
also a lot of dust on the road as well so I was feeling pretty dusty as Carter Anderson, you dusty bitches. Well, before we left to go back to Latitude 62, we saw
an Alaska train, roaring through both of us got good pictures and video of that that was pretty cool Yep, we couldn’t wait to get back and rest for a bit and then
get something. We decided we eat at the Latitude 62 restaurants since damn we’ve been staying here for three nights. We might as well try their food. Well,
we did do that after taking a bit of a rest and charging our phones, etc. We went there in a special is absolutely scrumptious. We had
egg print rollatini with polenta. It was gourmet style food. The really nice fellow who served us knew that the chef was used to working at fine dining establishments. He
also gave us some really good advice about various things such as getting birch syrup down at the beginning of this road that connects Talkeetna with the
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outside world. The Talkeetna spur I believe it’s called. Anyhow, I want to say again how much of a pleasant time we had at the Latitude 62 restaurant.
The man was really nice to us and the food was absolutely tasty. I was so hungry. I was tempted to add another chili to the meal, but I
held off. You came back to the room and decided we would dust ourselves off with a nice powerful shower. The shower was pretty good. I mean that order came out nice
and hard which was good. I watched the Phillies highlights and they weren’t really highlights since José Alvarado blew a save and we lost 6 to 4. to the
Mets 6 to 4 yuck! The Phillies can’t seem to be good teams to beat the Marlins two out of three but so far at home they lost the mats. Anyhow, enough of that
bullshit, the food was really good and I bought a T-shirt and so did Mary. I had to get a T-shirt from this place cause Lord knows I’ve stayed here.
We’re thinking of eating breakfast here. I just thought of something that even if the coffee is bad, I know where I can get good coffee. They don’t have to know
about that of course you don’t tell other people about other people’s stuff. It’s kind of rude. I was raised better than I was not raised in a barn for God sake. Anyway, well I don’t know why I went on that tangent, but I guess I took up word space on my blog.
