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| Alaska at last! |
We made it! After a solid week of driving from Jasper, here we are in Palmer Alaska! An epic and amazing journey, on which more to follow shortly, and arrived just in time to collect Ben from the airport in Anchorage this evening. (He's been travelling for the past 36 hours himself, so probably good that we make it to the airport on time!).
Our arrival was through the tiny Poker Creek border post on the dirt road from the famous gold rush era Dawson City to quirky community of Chicken (so-named because the first white settlers in the 1880s wanted to name it after the abundant local ptarmigans but, after establishing that none of them had any idea how to spell "Ptarmigan", settled on Chicken instead as a workable compromise).
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| Probably the tiniest, certainly the friendlies, border post into the USA anywhere! |
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| The Chicken jokes just keep on comin' |
After a night in Chicken, where we had our first, modestly successful, attempt at gold panning, we came on down to Palmer, and here we are, having managed to score ourselves a bed and an unbelievable view with our friends Cathy and Mark. What a luck!
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| View from our bedroom this morning. Note runway with Supercub in foreground! |
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