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Essay Published August 26, 2014

Day 19 - From Denali to Anchorage

Before we had to leave the Denali National Park we decided we wanted to drive the Park Road as far as you are allowed with our own vehicle. And we were so glad we did! We not only saw the first bull moose of our vacation, we also did finally get to see a… Read more

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Essay Published August 25, 2014

Day 18 - Denali National Park and the green shuttle bus

The second day of our road trip began early for us, as we had to make our way to Denali National Park until 11.30 at the latest to be on time to board our shuttle bus. Since we hadn’t seen any animals on the previous day and were almost through the… Read more

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Essay Published August 25, 2014

Day 17 - The scenic Denali Highway

The beginning of our trip to the Denali Highway led us up the Glenn Highway, a route we had taken before, up to Glennallen. From there we followed the Richardson Highway to Paxson where we finally took a turn onto the Denali Highway. Just getting there… Read more

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Album Published August 25, 2014

Day 17 - Driving to Denali (4 new items)

Glenn Highway & Denali Highway

Album Published August 25, 2014

Day 17 - Slideshow

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Day 17 - Driving to Denali

Glenn Highway & Denali Highway

Essay Published August 24, 2014

Day 16 - Thunder Bird Falls

Since we used most of our day 16 to get everything ready for our road trip to Denali we didn't have time to do big excursions. Instead we went to the Thunder Bird Falls that are fairly close by Eagle River. The area is located in the Chugach State Park… Read more

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Essay Published August 23, 2014

Day 15 - Downtown Anchorage

Since we have already travelled all over the place but hadn't really been to Anchorage itself, we decided that would be on our schedule for today. So we went downtown to see the city. It turned out that even though Anchorage might be quite big, and is… Read more

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Album Published August 23, 2014

Day 15 - Visiting Anchorage Downtow (1 new item)

Anchorage Downtown

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Essay Published August 20, 2014

Day 13 & 14 - Weekend

This weekend we didn't do very much, but instead used the time to regenerate and plan our next trip. Next week we'll be going up to Denali National Park where we'll hopefully get to see Mt. McKinley and a lot of other beautiful landscape. Maybe even some… Read more

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Album Published August 20, 2014

Day 13-14 (9 new items)

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Essay Published August 19, 2014

Day 12 - The Eagle River Nature Center

For our first day back in Eagle River we wanted to do something, but somewhere in the area, so we drove out to the Eagle River Nature Center. They have a bunch of nice hiking trails out there where we planned to spend our day. Since it was cloudy and we… Read more

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Day 15 - Visiting Anchorage Downtow

Anchorage Downtown

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Album Published August 19, 2014

Day 13-14

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Essay Published August 16, 2014

Day 11 - Puffins, Exit Glacier and more clouds

Even though it had rained hard all night, in the morning it started to clear up and we did even see a bit of blue sky for a while. Since the weather conditions didn't seem stable we decided to go for a indoor-activity today. Therefore we visited the… Read more

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Essay Published August 16, 2014

Day 10 - From Homer to Seward

Day 10 started with a lot of rain at night, which made packing up the tent much harder than hoped for. The rain kept pouring down while we travelled up the Sterling Highway towards Kenai, where we intended to do a short surprise-stop to visit some… Read more

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Essay Published August 15, 2014

Day 9 - Homer

After a nice breakfast with Bagels and Cream Cheese we walked out to the Homer Spit. The view from the top of that short strip of land was incredible, since we basically had a 360° view around Kachemak Bay. The weather was OK, it wasn't very cold and it… Read more

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Essay Published August 13, 2014

Day 8 - The Kenai Peninsula

The start of our second week in Alaska also marked the beginning of our second road trip. This time we're not going up into interior Alaska, but rather down south to visit the Kenai Peninsula. With a pop-up trailer attached to the huge car we started our… Read more

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Day 7 - Eagle River

On Sunday we joined our host family at church and used to rest of the day for regeneration ;) That meant some raspberry-picking and a lot of doing nothing. We did take a walk through Eaglewood though, that is the neighborhood around where we're staying… Read more

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Essay Published August 12, 2014

Day 6 - Trip back to Eagle River

Our day #6 in Alaska started really early as we wanted to go pick blueberries again before we had to leave Tok. We got up at 5 o'clock to do so, and after about one and a half hours of picking we ended up having a whole bucket of blueberries that we got… Read more

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