Early pack up this morning. We had our suitcases out for pickup at 5:15 then
went over for a 5:30 buffet breakfast. Breakfast was the usual cheesy eggs with
bacon. We got into the roadhouse bus and started the 95 mile trek back to the
park entrance. it was still raining as Kirsty drove and told us her story. She
used to drive race horses around then decided to stay in the US as an illegal
immigrant for 7 years before making it legal. She gave some hilarious tales of
her and her sister driving Roadhouse buses up from the factory in Georgia to
Alaska. They camped on the buses as they traveled. At one time they
accidentally ended up on the Las Vegas strip in the Roadhouse bus. We gor to
the train station in time for the arrival of the train which we boarded into the
dome cars once again. This time we had a noisy and obnoxious cruise tour in
front of us. The scenery on the trip was awesome in spite of the low
intelligence level of the morons occupying the front section of the car. our
train narrator told many personal stories. My favorite was his prom date. He
lived in a trailer and had a rusty old pick up truck. However, he had his own
plane and a pilots license. He took his date up to Denali, had a picnic lunch
and asked her to be his girlfriend. She refused and only wanted to be friends.
The same with a kiss goodnight at her door. It wasn't going to happen. We had
a nice lunch on the train. We satA with Ron and his wife. Ron is a doctor at
Hoag in New port Beach.I ordered the Alaskan Seafood salad which had crab, cod
and shrimp over noodles in a sesame and ginger sauce. It was reminiscent of a
trader Joe's Thai salad I like. We got off around 4 in Takaneeta, a cute
authentic Alaskan town. We walked with Paul and Ann, bought a beer at the
General Store and walked all the way to the river. We walked back and had
dinner at the Denali Twisted Creek restaurant and Brewery. I ordered an Alaskan
fish sandwich which came with curly fries. This was accompanied by a Sockeye
Red beer which is one of their amber offerings. After dinner we boarded a
comfortable motor coach and went to Anchorage where we went to the Knit River
Lodge at the end of a road. It was quite luxurious for a rustic Alaskan lodge
and is quite new.