Good morning everyone it’s our second full day in Talkeetna. We got up about 8:15 AM so we could go to breakfast at the conscious Café before being picked up at 10:15 AM. We had a delicious bagel and egg sandwich. We met these two guys from Scotland who scaled Denali just recently. They’ve been here in Alaska for about four weeks and they were getting ready to leave to go back to Scotland. They’re very nice gentlemen we then mellowed out & finished our food. We then got back to our lodging to get extra prepped for the trip coming up. We’re waiting to be picked up at 10:15 to for the glacier landing and fly over to Denali. We got picked up right on time and then we went and picked up people at this Denali Lodge, which looks like a high-end Swiss chalet place. Well, when we got here, we got checked in paid the remaining $685 and then put on some glacier boots because I don’t have shoes that are sufficient to grip the glacier. There’s quite a few people here they do groups of 10. Already two groups of 10 have been selected so it looks like most a lot of of this will be a matter of waiting. Well, my friends out there in the Internet it was well worth the weight. We only waited about 10 minutes more and then our group pretend was called and we boarded the plane after getting instructions from the pilot about what to do and what not to do. He boarded us by weight and we met a couple people from Delco believe it or not. I was such a surprise you go this far away and you’re running the people who lived in Bucks County and in this case Delco. Anyhow, once recorded the pilot took us to some really cool views of Talkeetna. We got closer to the mountain range we glaciers and mountains, and we could actually see the peak believe it or not. We got really lucky with the weather. He told us later that the whole month of May was too windy and overcast to even land so we were very fortunate we could land. So the views were unbelievable. It’s hard to even fathom on this mirror little blog. I put a lot of stuff on Facebook because it was definitely Facebook. where is the kind of thing social media was made for. But the pictures don’t even capture the the vastness of this Mountain range. It was totally worth the money that we spent on it. It’s an experience that can’t be merely described in words and noun such. Anyhow, we all wore headphones and the pilot basically narrated what we were seeing. was too bad I couldn’t quite get the narration on my videos that would’ve been totally clutch if I was able to jam my phone towards the headphones. Once we landed, we landed on Ruth’s glacier I think. We stepped out. We saw this big huge rock called the gargoyle which stuck out right into the sunlight. It was quite a fascinating site to see when you first get off the plane. It was basically also the snow was packed so you could easily walk on it, which was nice. It was not too cold at all. After about a half hour or so of taking pictures and videotaping, etc. we’re all asked to come back on the plane and once you got on the plane was a very smooth trip back. We got to see some cool views as well coming back into Takena. Once we landed in Talkeetna , we had to buy some swag for sure. So that’s what we did and then we walked back to our place to jettison some clothes check our phones and unwind a little bit. Then we decide to walk downtown and go to our favorite place called Mountain high Moon pie and try getting a pizza. Mary got lasagna and I got a calzone. I haven’t eaten a calzone in ages. It was perfect. I was so hungry then I got a nice vanilla cone and we just relaxed. It’s now 3:53 PM. well after we relax for a while we left Mountain nine Moon pie and took a little walk towards the different areas of the main street and decided to check out the hippie place. The woman visit very strange today she was questioning. I just had a weird attitude hard to describe. She hinted that they had decay two had problems and what we did wasn’t that great because she had done it before some kind of bullshit like that. We also noticed that everything they sell was at least 50 bucks no sales or anything. So we didn’t come out of there feeling that great but you also understood it wasn’t our problem. It was a her problem. We went to the secondhand place and returned and gave away one of Mary’s shirts that weren’t fitting very well. The woman who we met yesterday looked like she’s getting ready to close. She had her vacuum cleaner out and seemed a little distracted, but that was OK. She did take the shirt which was nice of her. We checked out what the princess cruises were about and Nan wasn’t necessarily a cruise ship. It was some kind of resort had nothing to his cruise shop. It was a little bit odd. I did go to one of the little stores and got something to drink and a diet Pepsi. I also checked this one store that had a little bit of everything but lots of Alaska type stuff like pellets and odds and ends. it was a completely Alaska type of place that I was kind of expecting. It was just a little weird story. yeah Mary just told me it was called Nagley‘s. This store also had a cat that resided in the store. It was just perched, resting in a dog sled that was hanging in the shop. It was funny. We walked towards the Talkeetna cemetery. We had taken a quick trip there yesterday, but we didn’t have the time to go venturing in the place. Once we got in, it was very interesting. It had been established by the BLM Bureau of land management back in the 1910s. We saw a bunch of very interesting gravestones and monuments to people who had lived and died in Talkeetna. It was quite an eventful day. So eventful that yesterday and today kind of merged together into one happy part in fact I think we visited the cemetery early in the day earlier in the day and then we looked at it but didn’t have the energy. Anyway, we eventually came back to our abode and just unwound and all that and next thing you know, we’re both falling asleep. I was trying to do the glacier Landing video over again and it’s taking about 20 years to download because basically we have one bar or even half of one bar reception just enough to have Internet. The Wi-Fi that they gave us works mainly in the barn and it doesn’t really work out here at the Furthest place from the bar we purposely did that we rented the places furthest away from the bar, so we’d be away from any possible rowdy people. I forgot to mention that we spent a lot of time in that store with the strange things in it. I got some pretty good pictures of that. I think we’re covering a lot of Tokeena very well. I think we’ve gone into most of the stores, not all of them, though. Some aren’t that that interesting but a couple are very, very interesting and we’ve picked out two places really like to eat the consciousness coffee shop, which is our favorite breakfast place and the moon pie place moon pizza pie place which we really like for the rest of the kind of food you know we’ve had pizza twice there and then we had a lasagna and something else which is an inverted pizza and I can’t think of the aim for it. Anyhow, what really made a day special was the glacier Landing and the flight over the mountains today. That was really cool. I’ll never forget that for as long as I have a brain left. Hope to get some good pictures out of it that I can develop in process, etc., and will not be able to really express how cool it was to be flown around glaciers and rock formations that were frozen in time. Glaciers or something the guy was telling us during the flight. There’s like thousand feet of ice thick thousand foot thick ice is what I meant to say. Pretty much babbling this blog so I can fit more pictures in. We eventually came back and we crashed for a little bit and now it’s 12:25 AM and I really should finish this so that’s that for now and tomorrow’s another day. We’re gonna sleep in tomorrow and maybe see some live music go out to consciousness café and have breakfast and spend our last full day in Talkeetna.
Good morning everyone it’s our second full day in Talkeetna. We got up about 8:15 AM so we could go to breakfast at the conscious Café before being 
picked up at 10:15 AM. We had a delicious bagel and egg sandwich. We met these two guys from Scotland who scaled Denali just recently. They’ve been 
here in Alaska for about four weeks and they were getting ready to leave to go back to Scotland. They’re very nice gentlemen we then mellowed 
out & finished our food. We then got back to our lodging to get extra prepped for the trip coming up. We’re waiting to be picked up at 10:15 to for the 
glacier landing and fly over to Denali. We got picked up right on time and then we went and picked up people at this Denali Lodge, which looks like a high-end Swiss 
chalet place. Well, when we got here, we got checked in paid the remaining $685 and then put on some glacier boots because I don’t have shoes 
that are sufficient to grip the glacier. There’s quite a few people here they do groups of 10. Already two groups of 10 have been selected so it looks 
like most a lot of of this will be a matter of waiting. Well, my friends out there in the Internet it was well worth the weight. We only waited about 10 minutes 
more and then our group pretend was called and we boarded the plane after getting instructions from the pilot about what 
to do and what not to do. He boarded us by weight and we met a couple people from Delco believe it or not. I was such a surprise you go this far away and you’re running the
people who lived in Bucks County and in this case Delco. Anyhow, once recorded the pilot took us to some really cool views of Talkeetna. We got closer to the 
mountain range we glaciers and mountains, and we could actually see the peak believe it or not. We got really lucky with the weather. He told us later that the
whole month of May was too windy and overcast to even land so we were very fortunate we could land. So the views were unbelievable. It’s hard to 
even fathom on this mirror little blog. I put a lot of stuff on Facebook because it was definitely Facebook. where is the kind of thing social media 
was made for. But the pictures don’t even capture the the vastness of this Mountain range. It was totally worth the money that we spent on it. It’s an experience
that can’t be merely described in words and noun such. Anyhow, we all wore headphones and the pilot basically narrated what we were seeing. 
was too bad I couldn’t quite get the narration on my videos that would’ve been totally clutch if I was able to jam
my phone towards the headphones. Once we landed, we landed on Ruth’s glacier I think. We stepped out. We saw this big huge rock called the gargoyle 
which stuck out right into the sunlight. It was quite a fascinating site to see when you first get off the plane. It was basically also the snow was packed so you could easily walk on it, which was nice. It was not too cold at all. After about a half hour or so of taking pictures and videotaping, etc. we’re all asked to come back 
on the plane and once you got on the plane was a very smooth trip back. We got to see some cool views as well coming back into Takena. Once we landed
in Talkeetna , we had to buy some swag for sure. So that’s what we did and then we walked back to our place to jettison some clothes check our phones and unwind a little bit. Then we decide to walk downtown and go to our favorite place called Mountain high Moon pie and try getting a pizza. Mary got lasagna
and I got a calzone. I haven’t eaten a calzone in ages. It was perfect. I was so hungry then I got a nice vanilla cone and we just relaxed. It’s now 3:53 PM.
well after we relax for a while we left Mountain nine Moon pie and took a little walk towards the different areas of the main street and decided to 
check out the hippie place. The woman visit very strange today she was questioning. I just had a weird attitude hard to describe. She hinted that they had 
decay two had problems and what we did wasn’t that great because she had done it before some kind of bullshit like that. We also noticed that everything
they sell was at least 50 bucks no sales or anything. So we didn’t come out of there feeling that great but you also understood it wasn’t our problem. It was 
a her problem. We went to the secondhand place and returned and gave away one of Mary’s shirts that weren’t fitting very well. The woman who we met
yesterday looked like she’s getting ready to close. She had her vacuum cleaner out and seemed a little distracted, but that was OK. She did take the
shirt which was nice of her. We checked out what the princess cruises were about and Nan wasn’t necessarily a cruise ship. It was some kind of resort had 
nothing to his cruise shop. It was a little bit odd. I did go to one of the little stores and got something to drink and a diet Pepsi. I also checked this one store
that had a little bit of everything but lots of Alaska type stuff like pellets and odds and ends. it was a completely Alaska type of place that I was kind of 
expecting. It was just a little weird story. yeah Mary just told me it was called Nagley‘s. This store also had a cat that resided in the store. It 
was just perched, resting in a dog sled that was hanging in the shop. It was funny. We walked towards the Talkeetna cemetery. We had taken a quick trip there
yesterday, but we didn’t have the time to go venturing in the place. Once we got in, 
it was very interesting. It had been established by the BLM Bureau of land management back in the 1910s. We saw a bunch of very interesting gravestones and monuments to people who had lived and died in Talkeetna. It was 
quite an eventful day. So eventful that yesterday and today kind of merged together into one happy part in fact I think we visited the cemetery
early in the day earlier in the day and then we looked at it but didn’t have the energy. Anyway, we eventually came back to our abode and just unwound
and all that and next thing you know, we’re both falling asleep. I was trying to do the glacier Landing video over again and it’s taking about 20 years to 
download because basically we have one bar or even half of one bar reception just enough to have Internet. The Wi-Fi that they gave us works mainly 
in the barn and it doesn’t really work out here at the Furthest place from the bar we purposely did that we rented the places furthest away from 
the bar, so we’d be away from any possible rowdy people. I forgot to mention that we spent a lot of time in that store with the strange things in it. I 
got some pretty good pictures of that. I think we’re covering a lot of Tokeena very well. I think we’ve gone into most of the stores, not all of them, though. 
Some aren’t that that interesting but a couple are very, very interesting and we’ve picked out two places really like to eat the consciousness coffee 
shop, which is our favorite breakfast place and the moon pie place moon pizza pie place which we really like for the rest of the kind of food you know 
really made a day special was the glacier Landing and the flight over the mountains today. That was really cool. I’ll never forget that for as long as I have
a brain left. Hope to get some good pictures out of it that I can develop in process, etc., and will not be able to really express how cool it was to be flown 
around glaciers and rock formations that were frozen in time. Glaciers or something the guy was telling us 
during the flight. There’s like thousand feet of ice thick thousand foot thick ice is what I meant to say. Pretty much babbling this blog so I can fit more pictures 
in. We eventually came back and we crashed for a little bit and now it’s 12:25 AM and I really should finish this so that’s that for now and tomorrow’s 
another day. We’re gonna sleep in tomorrow and maybe see some live music go out to consciousness café and have breakfast and spend our last full day in Talkeetna.
