Today was another day of easy travel and sightseeing.
We started the 130 mile ride today easy. We made several stops along the road at 'scenic views'.
The first photo above is of Denali, also known as Mt. McKinley. This photo is from about 100 miles or so away.
We arrived at our lodge for the night too early for check-in so we continued on to Denali National Park. Shortly after we arrived there we were able to take the park shuttle bus to the dog sled demonstrations. The second photo is of one of the dogs. Notice the blue eyes.
We went back and checked into the lodge / cabin / motel (there was a little of everything there). we ended up in what one would call the motel section.
For supper we drove 7 miles up the road (1 miles past the Denali National Park entrance) to an area called Denali Gulch. It is an area of several motels (mostly owned by the travel companies like Princess, etc.) and tourist shops. We had our supper at a place named 'Salmon Bake'. It was an interesting building, almost falling down. The floor and walls were leaning and the ceiling / roof was canvas, as in canvas tent. Good thing it was not raining. There were sings around that in effect said that the entire area closes down in winter, that is, the area is only open May through September.
Signed:
The Wayward Travelers
p.s. Please accept the delay in posting this as the motel we were staying in had poor Internet capabilities. They had wireless access, however I ended up trying over a half an hour each night we were there to access it. I sometimes got to our e-mail home page then the connection would drop. My apology.
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