Sunday, May 21, 2006
11 Hours Overland To Denali National Park
I've got an internet connection again!
But this time I am typing this from a public terminal in this mountain lodge in what is known as the Denali National Park in Alaska. It's north of Anchorage and it's apparently the size of Massachussetts (how the hell do you spell this state?), and it took us 11 hours by train to get from the port of Whittier, where we disembarked from our ship, to here.
The cruise was one fantastic 7 days of pure luxury; great food, great service, and absolutely unimaginable scenery. But tt's over and done with. On the 11 hour train journey, we got to see meese - oops, I mean moose (damn. the plural of moose is moose, not meese, isn't it?) -, caribou, and more bald eagles! (Thank god for the wildlife. The 11 hour journey was KILLING me. SO am not looking forward to the forever in the plane back. Bah.)
I've seen so much wildlife I wanna run away to Alaska and live in the wild! Yippee! Even though I'll probably get eaten by a bear before day 2 is over.
And I got to taste reindeer meat. Alaskan reindeer chilli... tastes like beef. And yes I am such a carnivore. And no I don't care. Wahaha. I took so many photos tt I cannot believe it myself. But you have to see the scenery here... Alaska has so many mountains it makes the Rockies look like playland. And all the stuff you can do here... hike, trek, climb (Jane will have a field day with all the mountains. They're not all tall, but there are so many of them. Wahaha), raft, canoe, bike... etc etc etc. And dog-sled, if you so insist.
LOVE ALASKA.
But tt said, I still want to go back to Singapore. You know why.
1 week more.
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But this time I am typing this from a public terminal in this mountain lodge in what is known as the Denali National Park in Alaska. It's north of Anchorage and it's apparently the size of Massachussetts (how the hell do you spell this state?), and it took us 11 hours by train to get from the port of Whittier, where we disembarked from our ship, to here.
The cruise was one fantastic 7 days of pure luxury; great food, great service, and absolutely unimaginable scenery. But tt's over and done with. On the 11 hour train journey, we got to see meese - oops, I mean moose (damn. the plural of moose is moose, not meese, isn't it?) -, caribou, and more bald eagles! (Thank god for the wildlife. The 11 hour journey was KILLING me. SO am not looking forward to the forever in the plane back. Bah.)
I've seen so much wildlife I wanna run away to Alaska and live in the wild! Yippee! Even though I'll probably get eaten by a bear before day 2 is over.
And I got to taste reindeer meat. Alaskan reindeer chilli... tastes like beef. And yes I am such a carnivore. And no I don't care. Wahaha. I took so many photos tt I cannot believe it myself. But you have to see the scenery here... Alaska has so many mountains it makes the Rockies look like playland. And all the stuff you can do here... hike, trek, climb (Jane will have a field day with all the mountains. They're not all tall, but there are so many of them. Wahaha), raft, canoe, bike... etc etc etc. And dog-sled, if you so insist.
LOVE ALASKA.
But tt said, I still want to go back to Singapore. You know why.
1 week more.
# posted by Kitana @ 5/21/2006 02:27:00 PM 
