Forty years ago today, Mom and I arrived in Alaska - we rolled into Anchorage on July 31, 1965 at around 2:00 PM in the afternoon. We left Canada at 4:00 AM - Mom was in a hurry to get here!!!!
Mom and I celebrated our 40th by spending most of the day in Girdwood at Alyeska Ski Resort. We started out with brunch at the Bakeshop. As all of us locals know, the bake shop is one fabulous place. I've been eating bake shop cinnamon rolls, sourdough pancakes, and soups for the past 35 years!!!! After gorging ourselves at the bakeshop, Mom and I rolled on over to the Prince Hotel and grabbed our geocaching stuff. We did the Winner Creek geocache which is located appropriately enough on the Winner Creek trail. The trail is drop dead amazing - it winds its way through the thick, lush, incredibly green rain forest. One is sure that ents must live there.
After bagging Winner Creek, we then took the tram to almost the top of the mountain where I went after the Alyeska Overlook geocache. The cache is located at the top of Chair 2 (the top of the mountain) which is about a .5 mile steep climb from the tram. This is black diamond ski country for sure!
This cache was extra special, it was my 100th cache! And I timed it so I could do it on our 40th anniversary. So a double whammy of special!!!
Mom and I trammed our way back down the mountain, headed back to Anchorage (we did a quick cache along the way), picked up the Ski Boy and finished off the day with a wonderful celebratory dinner at Sack's!!!
I think one of Mom's top five all time best decisions was deciding to move to Alaska in 1965!!!!! She was 27 years old, single (newly divorced) with a 6 year old kid. That was a pretty gutsy move on her part. And it paid off in spades. There is no where else I would rather live!
Thanks Mom!!!!
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