Alaska is. . .

• Anchorage-big, wide, clean, friendly
• the Snow City Cafe-french toast stuffed with mandarin cream cheese
• a great yarn shop with friendly knitters and local yarn
• Talkeetna-a rustic, historic village north of Wasilla
• the cabin way out there where we could hear the salmon jumping as we sat by the campfire
• sun until nearly midnight when the daylight just dims
• Homer-a little town that thinks it's big but it can't compete with the mountains and the water around it
• Seward with its gorgeous Resurrection Bay and the police officer who spent his shift shooing off a mama bear and her three cubs from the out of town bridge where they were fishing
• big sky, big mountains, wildlife
• SERIOUS fishermen and women who wear their waders all day long and even in town
• a secret restaurant that is rated one of the top ten in the USA by the food network
• a place that needs to be revisited