Alaska Exploration
After two months of Ann Arbor living, I'm finally seeing my husband again up in Alaska! Hooray!
Here's a map of our travels--click on it to make it bigger. Point A is where my plane landed: Anchorage, AK. Wil and I hit up Costco while we were there to stock up on less expensive food.
We then drove to Seward (Point B in the southwest corner of the map) for the National Ocean Science Bowl. NOSB was amazing--it's ocean-science-themed quiz bowl for high-schoolers. The Alaska competition actually includes a large research paper and oral presentation, which isn't required in any other NOSB state competitions. Cordova High School give a very professional report on bilge dumping!
After NOSB we drove to Point C: Whittier, AK. The entire town lives in one high-rise apartment building, and the vast majority of the town comprises a half-mile strip of shops and shipping facilities along the water. Most intriguing, however, was the building that looks like it belong in Chernobyl--we assume this was the old apartment building, abandoned in favor of the newer residence.
From Whittier we took a ferry (read: enormous boat that held all our cars, us, and a full cafeteria) across Prince William Sound to Cordova, which is located over on the east side of the map at about the Highway 10 sign. This sign is misleading: Cordova is not accessible by road!
As always, the scenery here astounds and amazes. I hope you enjoy the pictures!
Here's a map of our travels--click on it to make it bigger. Point A is where my plane landed: Anchorage, AK. Wil and I hit up Costco while we were there to stock up on less expensive food.
We then drove to Seward (Point B in the southwest corner of the map) for the National Ocean Science Bowl. NOSB was amazing--it's ocean-science-themed quiz bowl for high-schoolers. The Alaska competition actually includes a large research paper and oral presentation, which isn't required in any other NOSB state competitions. Cordova High School give a very professional report on bilge dumping!
This is the view from Seward High School.
After NOSB we drove to Point C: Whittier, AK. The entire town lives in one high-rise apartment building, and the vast majority of the town comprises a half-mile strip of shops and shipping facilities along the water. Most intriguing, however, was the building that looks like it belong in Chernobyl--we assume this was the old apartment building, abandoned in favor of the newer residence.
Creepy, right?
From Whittier we took a ferry (read: enormous boat that held all our cars, us, and a full cafeteria) across Prince William Sound to Cordova, which is located over on the east side of the map at about the Highway 10 sign. This sign is misleading: Cordova is not accessible by road!
Looking out over the bow as we embark on our journey!
As always, the scenery here astounds and amazes. I hope you enjoy the pictures!
View from the snowshoe trail
More gorgeous scenery during our drive to the snowshoe trail
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