{"id":6531,"date":"2019-07-18T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=6531"},"modified":"2019-07-31T19:20:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T02:20:38","slug":"day-trip-to-anchorage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2019\/07\/18\/day-trip-to-anchorage\/","title":{"rendered":"Day trip to Anchorage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We headed out early for Anchorage on Saturday morning.\u00a0 I programmed the Nav to find downtown.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We ended up going down a steep hill and found a park right on the inlet.\u00a0\u00a0 It was low tide so there was a lot of seabed showing, quite a bit of muck that looked like it might swallow you.\u00a0\u00a0 We couldn’t find a way to get over the railroad tracks that kept us from the shore, so we drove off to find what looked like a way I found on Google Satellite.\u00a0\u00a0 It ended up being a locked gate, so that was a bust.<\/p>\n

We \"\"<\/a>headed further south and found another much larger park with a big lake housing the loudest birds I can remember ever hearing.\u00a0 We went for a walk to see where the path went.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It was pretty cool.\u00a0 \u00a0We saw this station for life jackets you can borrow.\u00a0 It said, “Kids don’t float” on it.\u00a0 What a great program!!<\/p>\n

Along the path was some sort of bike counting contraption that told you how many bikes went by each month, and then a tunnel under the rail road tracks.\u00a0 Hey, we finally found a \"\"<\/a>way past the tracks!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Out there was a great viewpoint and something unexpected:\u00a0 a sewer pumping plant.\u00a0 Outside the pump-house was a cool sign depicting how it worked, including a drawing.\u00a0 Kind of fascinating as nowhere else had I ever seen a diagram of a municipal infrastructure building.<\/p>\n

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Prior to going thru the tunnel, there was a bridge over a creek \"\"<\/a>and probably due to the low tide a mud flat.\u00a0 \u00a0Kathy noticed very large bear footprints in the\u00a0 mud.\u00a0 Yikes!\u00a0 \u00a0As we were heading into the “city,” we left our bear spray in the RV.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s not to be left in a hot car and we figured it wouldn’t be required in town…\u00a0 Live and learn, folks!<\/p>\n

After walking around there for quite a while, we were hungry and I brought out my BringFido app to look for a place to eat.\u00a0\u00a0 Tommy’s Burgers was listed without any reviews on that app, so I opened Yelp, checked it out there.\u00a0 It had good ratings so we drove there.\u00a0 Not an easy place to get to; but after driving around the block once more, I saw where it was and then tried to figure out how the heck to get there.<\/p>\n

It was about 12:15 when we parked and there wasn’t a soul there.\u00a0 We grabbed a table on the patio and went thru the menu.\u00a0 I ended up with a Po Boy cheese burger that was really good.\u00a0 I guess the lunch crowd in Anchorage starts around 12:30 on Saturdays.\u00a0\u00a0 It was pretty full when we left.<\/p>\n

After finishing lunch, I called the Anchorage Trolley Tour number to see if we could bring Dusty with us.\u00a0 The guy on the phone said only if he is better behaved than me.\u00a0 We headed off to find the corner they leave from and look for somewhere to park. \u00a0 We found the corner then started looking for a place to park.\u00a0 Within a few minutes, I spotted someone pulling away from the curb and we pulled into that spot.\u00a0 To our surprise, Saturdays the meters are not in use.\u00a0 Scored a free parking spot a block away and walked over to the visitor center to find the ticket guy.<\/p>\n

It was a one-hour tour of the city on one of those buses made up to look like a trolley.\u00a0 They seem to have one of them in every large town we have visited the last three years of RV’ing.\u00a0 There are lots of those trolley vehicles in San Diego, but I had never been on one of them.<\/p>\n

The driver\/tour guide was a funny young fellow who grew up in Alaska and lives in Anchorage, and he made the ride much more enjoyable than any other guided tour I have been on before.\u00a0 (I haven’t been on a lot of tours though)\u00a0 It’s an interesting city.\u00a0\u00a0 Some really nice housing areas and some really cruddy ones too.\u00a0 The 9.0+ earthquake in ’64 really changed the landscape too.<\/p>\n

They also have a lot of moose to deal with in town.\u00a0 Next to some of the larger streets that have the special stunted trees growing, they put up moose fence with moose gates that help keep the moose away from the highways.\u00a0 Lots of moose get killed by cars and trucks in the city.\u00a0\u00a0 The big moose get to be 8′ tall at the shoulder and up to 1,800 lbs.\u00a0\u00a0 Can’t imagine one of those coming in thru the windshield!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We headed out early for Anchorage on Saturday morning.\u00a0 I programmed the Nav to find downtown.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We ended up going down a steep hill and found a park right on the inlet.\u00a0\u00a0 It was low tide so there was a lot of seabed showing, quite a bit of muck that looked like it might swallow … <\/p>\n

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