Thursday, June 25, 2026

Thursday, June 25: Another Day in Talkeetna

Good afternoon who who are those who love afternoons. It’s a nice looking Friday afternoon at 2:30 PM here in Taquita Alaska. Mayor and I rested fora a while and then we went to our favorite breakfast place called consciousness coffee. It’s a very chill place and it wasn’t too crowded at all today. I think we missed the morning rush so to speak. We had our Sunrise sandwich. They taste good evening in the afternoon. I think we made the good choice to blow off Cantwell and the Cabins even though he did have to eat some money. Some things are just worth their weight in gold, etc. after we hung out at the cafĂ© for a while, we went strolling down the street and went to our favorite vintage clothing place and the woman named Willow greeted us like are you guys gonna stay here. That was pretty funny. We strolled and I almost got a shirt, but it was too small. Mary got a jean jacket which looks pretty cool and and we hung out and talked to her for a while. After we left there, we strolled a little bit more and decided we’d go to the Takena historical Society. We hung out there for at least an hour and a half just talking to a nice woman who works behind the desk. She also owns her own coffee shop and works for the DMV as a contractor. She’s very interesting and we learned a few things as well. I ended up getting a another sticker and a pin for my hat that seems to be my thing now so buy little pins for them to put on my hat. After that, we decided we needed to get some water and we started talking about laundry plans and how we’re gonna do laundry and have dinner so we stop by the Mountain high Pizza pie place. See you when it closed and then we then we figured out let’s just go back to the house to shower. I also organized my dirty clothes, which I started getting a pile of and the shower felt great when I finished. Then we drove to the laundromat got all the change and started the laundry. Then we went to Mountain high Pizza pie and there was a nice long line. With 6:45 PM it’s a good thing we went. We did because the place closes at 8 PM and a bunch of people came behind us as well so when we get settled, I’m going back to the laundromat and switch it into dry I mean the dryer. We decided to get a sausage and green pepper, which was just as good as the margarita pizza. frankly We didn’t know we could just make our own pizza, but it doesn’t make sense. We out down on that pizza and it was delicious. Soon as I finish my drink, we’re going to head over to the laundromat. At least I’m gonna go to the laundromat switch from the wash to the dryer. Meanwhile, we’re sitting here at 7:20 PM and the lines out to the door. To the  Mountain High Pizza Pie. when I went to the laundromat quickly switched my clothes to the most available dryer, which was right behind me, which was nice. Put $2.75 in a way I went back to Mountain high Pizza pie where I hung out and had the rest of my watery soda and hung out and saw that the Phillies had another nice comeback that we will watch later on YouTube. But this one guy I follow One threads let me know it was happening right after it happened. Anyhow, meet Mary and I then walk back to the laundromat together and all the clothes were dry believe or not. The dryer just finished. We got back to help. She folded my shirts up and I was able to fit all of them in two separate piles in the black bag so that really helped because we’re gonna be doing a lot of driving and traveling over the next three days and it’s good to have all my nine extra shirts well eight not counting the one that I’m giving to Alice but nine shirts I bought and that’s you know that adds a little bit of space but Mary took a shower and we’re gonna unwind and watch highlights of the Phillies game sing the songs of my people and then go to bed and get up because we have to check out. We can’t really sleep in tomorrow. 

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Wednesday, June 24: leaving Healy, Skipping Cantwell. Go to Talkeetna

This morning I woke up recovering from the revenge of Montezuma and I woke up. Felt pretty good. Got some weird text messages and anyway woke up feeling refreshed ready to eat a normal breakfast. We found a place called the Alaska coffee bean. And it was perfect. Kind of place that we like. So we found a place we can go to if there’s nothing in Cantwell, which is 48 miles away from here. It’s a much nicer day than yesterday the sun‘s out partly cloudy but also most partly sunny as well. We enjoyed our bagel sandwiches. We hung out, watched highlights of the Phillies 14 to 9 comeback victory against the Washington nationals. Then we ran to a large group mainly a family with three kids who were doing the same sort of thing to Alaska. They did cross through Taquita for a minute and told us they had an awful meal at Latitude 62 where we stayed. I almost burst out laughing because they’re only impression was a really bad meal at Latitude 62 so we told him all is great. you were a quarter mile away from the cute part. It’s not 1:18 PM we’re gonna head out. This place is probably gonna be our go to spot for breakfast till we go to Anchorage. Well, we headed out and went to the post office and got some free next day air envelopes for free and found out the coffee place. We went to, Alaska coffee bean is up for sale along with the cabins next to it. They’re asking price is $1.3 million. After we walked from the post office, we stopped by the Three Bears Alaska store and and I went to get some gas to fill up the tank because the only gas station in Cantwell was WAY overpriced. We found out they’re charging  6️⃣ bucks a gallon and most places around 5️⃣ bucks a gallon. We drove down to the Cantwell  Cabins. We walked around and we noticed there was one nobody there doors were left open. The bar wasn’t finished that they said they would finish in last year‘s reviews that we read on their own Google reviews. We were able to walk in one room where the bed was. I made like somebody split as soon as they can from the place the room look clean, but it was undone. We called the lady. She said she was gonna be an hour and a half until she got there and then she would clean the room. Mary and I looked at each other and sat in the car and had a very important strategy session. We decided that blow off the place and write her a letter on WhatsApp because that’s the only way you can send her messages. We decided to go to Latitude 62 in to take Aetna, which is 22 hours closer to Anchorage. This would enable us to get a place we know about and a place we like and save some driving when we have to go back to Anchorage in two days. We were a little disappointed in the place, but we had to do what we had to do. We just couldn’t sit around and waiting in a town in the middle of nowhere for a lady to show up. So we drove down the driveway went pretty smoothly beside the old slowdowns and road repairs. We arrived. We got room eight which is second furthest away from the bar. We were in room 10 couple days ago. So now we’re gonna have chicken at the restaurant blackened chicken the best kind of chicken I guess. Well, the chicken was very good it Who is blackened chicken tasted very good. We enjoyed very much. Then we decided to take a walk around Taquita. We strolled around and enjoyed the setting sun. It didn’t really set. We were out till about not 8:45 PM and we came in and watched some Phillies highlights again came back to win a game with two hours and nobody on the top of the 9th inning against the nationals. It was an historic inning. That’s for sure. The video you see here took about 10 hours to download when we were in Kina, which was interesting. Meanwhile, the Denali Totem it took 10 minutes very interesting stuff I think.