I'm sitting here in the Alaska Airlines LAX Boardroom while out the window an Air New Zealand 747-400 has just taxied by. After reading your report, I'm almost ready to run over to Terminal 2 and buy a Business Class seat down to Auckland. Once again, a superb report covering a spectacular journey. My little First Class jaunts to Australia are boring by comparison! As always, I'll be looking forward to your future adventures.

As for Denali, had you visited (I'm assunimg you were in Alaska in the past month) you would have found only the Murie Science and Learning Center to be open. Insofar as finding a place to stay or something to eat, that would be 12 miles up the road in Healy. Most of the Denali Park community won't return to life until mid May.