Talkeetna

Left Alyeska and drove for about an hour to Anchorage. This is a major city of around 400,000 people. All the places in Alaska are unbelievably clean. I have yet to see any rubbish on roadsides or pavements. Found out there is an automatic $1000 fine if found dropping rubbish. My phone went on the blink today. Found an Apple shop but he couldn’t fix it in the short time. I had before the bus left. However over night it has rectified itself thank goodness. After Anchorage drove to a place called Talkeetna. We are staying at the McKinlay Princess Lodge high up in the forest. The accommodation is in rustic buildings which each have about 15 bedrooms. Our lodge was at the top of the hill which gave us good exercise although there was a shuttle we could have used but we walked each time. The lodge is only open during summer as it is completely snowed in with feet of snow during winter. Although it’s miles from nowhere the food prices were very reasonable. The lodge was built in the 70’s and the bedrooms are tired but clean. All the lights in the bedroom have tacky moose on them.