This is our second trip to Alaska.....the first was an adventure up the Inside Passage from Vancouver Island by ship to Skagway, then over the Klondike pass to Whitehorse in the Yukon. We had to wait a few days for the bus to take us up the Alcan Highway to Fairbanks via Beaver Creek, the western most 'place' of any consequence in Canada. After an overnight in the only hotel, we jumped back on the bus towards Fairbanks via Tok. Fairbanks is as you'd expect of a far north Alaskan town /city....rough, dirty but friendly and interesting. After a quick drive up to the Arctic Circle along the Alaskan oil pipeline, we caught the train to Denali...anyway, that trip was in 1990 so I'll get to the details of this trip.
After having stayed down at Point Montaro YHA for a couple of nights (a great hostel right on the coast; used to be a fog signal station and lighthouse) we flew into Anchorage from San Francisco (via Seattle) arriving at midnight...why is that about the only time of day you can get to Anchorage from Seattle? The next morning we took our rental and headed down Turnagain Arm along the spectacularly beautiful Seward Highway
