Monday, June 15: Leaving Anchorage.

Hi! We got up around 9 o’clock and checked out of the hotel. We are staying at. We went to Sammy‘s City diner in downtown Anchorage. It was a little overpriced, but it’s very good service very clean and the food was good. The coffee was not great but the pancakes and the sausage are very good. We hung out there for a while, then headed out to Wasilla Alaska. This is the home of Sarah Pain, who was the mayor here and then she became governor of Alaska for a stent. We drove through beautiful mountain peaks and got to Wasilla and it wasn’t what I expected. It was more spread out and sprawl like and there was no central core per se. We did see the City Hall area and we took a picture of that of course. We went to a huge ginormous comic book store it’s comic books and games primarily. And we saw another one of these espresso stores that are just like a tiny little building and people drive-through and pick up coffee. They seem to be a thing in Alaska. We went to a building that has moose subs and it’s a historic building and we took care of some business there and then we decided we’d leave towards Takena. We decided to go to the headquarters of the Iditarod
 race, which is in Wasilla. We have to see artifacts, sleds nice looking Cabins and they actually had the dogs riding people on wheels because obviously there’s no snow this slide them around, but this one guy revived, revive the race back in the first Iditarod race was in 1973 and fought to keep the event alive through its most difficult years now it’s a national historic landmark. It’s where they used to deliver mail in the lake. Very cool story! Well, after we took a hike through Wasilla, we figured it was time to get her butts moving and head out towards Talkeetna! Well, we Drew drove about 13 miles past it and then the instructions told that told us to turn up dusty Road and turn around. We’re like oh shit it’s a kind of road that Rental Car company wouldn’t want us to go go to so once we got here We went to the Latitude 62 and it was quite the place it was about what I expect. It was like a drinking bar really dark drinking bar.  We paid our lodging at the bar with the bartender who had our names in it handwritten book of lodging. They did give us the last room furthest away from the bar, which was nice. The room is extremely basic. Everything works, but there’s no refrigerator. You know that kind of thing but you know the price was right it makes up for the fact we’re gonna be flying to a glacier in two days which was very expensive so there’s Talkeetna has a really quaint little downtown with one Main Street and it seems very chill and tourist deep and nice way. So we’re gonna be here for four days.  Then while we were at Talkeetna, we decided to go to a pizza place called Mile High Pizza Pie. We got a margarita pizza with pepperoni put on top and it was really tasty. The dough was superb and it was a really delicious pizza. I’m so glad we re-ordered it and so was Mary.