I hope everyone is not bored by the amount of photos! Anyway, there's more to come :-)


On the way back from Whittier to Palmer, after we crossed the tunnel and joined the Seward Highway, guess what we see once more? The train that had left about 15 minutes before we did.

What I was surprised was that the train appeared to have reversed. I never figured out where and why this happened, but if I recall, this sighting was just around Girdwood. Any locals with more insight into this?


As the train was moving slowly enough, we were able to come abreast of it very quickly, and then pass it.

Later, we stopped for Subway and donuts near the exit to the Alyeska resort. On the way back to Palmer, just past Anchorage, we ran into a big bottleneck. Road crew had cut the road down from three lanes to just one, and the back-up was about a mile long. It took us about 30-45 minutes just to get through that area. By the time we got back, it was almost 11 pm once more and we hit the bed!