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Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center

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0savesSave We awoke to, guess what? Another day of cloud cover! Yes, indeed. We are thoroughly sick of cloudy days and are longing for our beloved Colorado sunshine! However, despite the clouds and with today being our last day in Alaska, we were determined to make the 2-hour drive down to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation […]

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Kenai Fjords National Park Cruise + a National Geographic moment

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0savesSave Wow! What an amazing day! Many of you know that we are NOT early risers, being more night owls than early birds, so this morning’s alarm at 5:00am was a bit unwelcome! However, with a 4-hour drive to Seward ahead of us in order to take the Kenai Fjords National Park (pronouned “KEY-nigh”) cruise, […]

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Alaska Circle Drive #2 (Portage Lake + Whittier)

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0savesSave This afternoon, we decided to take another Circle Drive. We were in for a real treat as we headed out on the Seward Highway southeast of Anchorage. As we wound along this highway through Chugach State Park and beside Turnagain Arm (a body of water), we started to see some absolutely breathtaking mountain and […]

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Alaska Circle Drive #1 (with more to come!)

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0savesSave We took our first “circle drive” during our time in Alaska today. As many of you know, this has been one of our time-honored traditions while living in Colorado so we figured we would give it a try here. We drove just northwest of Wasilla through the communities of Houston and Willow and took […]

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We have arrived in Alaska!

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0savesSave We finally made it to Palmer today (Tuesday) at roughly 5:00 pm. What an incredible journey of over 2,200 miles from Anacortes! We actually arrived in Alaska last night at 9:30 pm Alaska Time (by the way, Alaska has its own time zone–Alaska Time–which is one hour behind Pacific Time). We got to the […]

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