Talkeetna & Cantwell

I'm sitting here at the Talkeetna Roadhouse listening to Ralph give an interview to the publisher of the Alaska Pioneer Press. I've got an internet connection. Yay! The restaurant part of the Roadhouse doesn't open for awhile. We have a Meet n Greet here in an hour.



Last night we left the Willow Trading Post Lodge late and enroute to Trapper Creek we stopped at the Sheep Creek Lodge. What a beautiful lodge. It's a huge log structure made with smooth logs of a beautiful rich color. The food was fine-dining-type food. I started with the gumbo soup and then moved to the shrimp and linguine with a parmesan cream sauce. Finished well satisfied with the forest berry pie. We arrived in Trapper Creek last night around 10:15.



Sleeping in the borrowed motorhome . . . the little generator runs great. It ran the heater for about five hours until 4am. We didn't restart it. It was really quite comfortable. We woke up again at 6:30 and all the puddles had frozen with a firm skin over the top. It was a bit chilly in the motorhome, but it didn't take long to fire it up and turn on the car heater.



A LOT more people showed up in Trapper Creek than I was expecting. Ralph did a question-and -answer session with them. It was a very engaged group, sort of like last night at Willow. People have a lot of things on their mind and they ask great questions. Ralph's favorite question from last night was "What are you good at?" I tell you, he's been chewing on that one. It's an easy question for others to answer, but not so easy to answer for yourself. Ha. Great question.


Break . . .
Now we're in Cantwell. Ralph's talking to a group of people here at the Cantwell Lodge. They have such intelligent questions. They're a very informed group. This is a lot of fun to listen to. The overall feeling so far, is overwhelming support. Hopefully, it's not just my feeling.

Mt. McKinley was up close and personal on the way here from Talkeetna. I have never seen it like that, in winter on a clear day so close. What a wonder.

I haven't had any internet connection problems since leaving Houston, but power has now become my bugaboo. Have to wait until we're situated in a venue until I can charge the computer, etc.

I'm signing off now, we're going to Healy when we're finished here.