Lunch behind us it was time to get serious about getting to Denali Lodge. Only about 100 miles more of the gravel road which everyone knows sho
uld only take about 1 1/2 hours back home. But here in Alaska everything is bigger and it takes way more time to get from point A to point B. Those 100 miles would take us nearly four hours!
Not that the time spent traveling thru this land is at all unpleasant. While it poured buckets yesterday, today we lucked out with no rain in sight. The morning clouds had finally cleared out and finally, FINALLY we could see there were honest to God mountains in this country! Things were looking up for our venture into Denali State Park tomorrow. In the meantime, we could see some of the mountains of the Alaska range (650 miles in total) peaking out in all their glory.
We eventually arrived at the Denali Princess Lodge (the Main Lodge and the view from our room) around 4 pm and after a quick trip to the room (hey, we hadn't seen "flushing" facilities since lunch!) we trekked back to the main building to visit the tour desk and switch in tomorrow's 4-hour excursion into the Park for the longer 7-hour tundra trek (the park is afterall why we've come to Alaska!) and also to sign up for the "M
usic of Denali" dinner theatre. (Then back to our room for a bit to complain about how our luggage is taking so long to be delivered to our room only to trip on the darn suitcases on our way out the door - that Princess is so efficient!)~later, tw
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