Pictures while Driving

I took these on the drive back from Whittier, AK.

By the way, the Whittier Tunnel is the coolest tunnel ever. More of a cave than a tunnel. One lane, fabulously dark. No concrete on the walls, just the blast marks from the dynamite. Seriously cool. I look forward to going through it when there's 5 million tons of snow heaped on top of that mountain.



There were bunnies outside the WeeBee Burgers.
Terrible burgers. Great strawberry Italian soda.
Right outside Portage Valley park, just after getting out of the tunnel. I will miss this view.

Some little boat across the water.

The road back to Anchorage.
It was a stunningly beautiful day.
There sure aren't many of them, but the ones they do have, are glorious.

Fall colors. They didn't come out too well through the dirt on my windshield.
There's a real pretty marsh on the other side of the blur.

'The sunlight flashes off your windshield,

and when I look up into the small, posted mirror,

I watch you diminish - my echo, my twin -

and vanish around a curve

in this whip of a road we can't help traveling together.

~William Collins

I particularly liked this tree.

Bane #6. Again.
My mountains.



This is my favorite picture. Looks like wavelines in the sand. And underwater. Just my favorite.

Fall colors!
I was fond of this grouping.
Mostly because I was stuck in front of it for 10 minutes.
See? They were painting.
I hate pilot cars...

But I will miss that view.

Sunset in Chugach Mountains

If you're still reading this blog, then you've read the previous post where I discuss coming home. Since I've moved that up slightly from my earlier assumption of three years, I've decided to see as much as possible.


Which means pictures =)



Anchorage at night. My camera needs a tripod to take pictures at night. Might try that next time.
Turnagain Arm.
The view from the Flat Top parking lot.

Anchorage and the castle house that probably costs at least $3 mil.
Downtown Anchorage. Yep, that would be those 5 buildings over there. See the tallest one? That's the Hilton.
And the tall one to the right of the Hilton? That's the BP building.
Sleeping Lady Mountain.

She watches over Anchorage.
Beautiful sunset.
Mt. McKinley. Yes, it is that close.

Rich people's houses muckin up my view.

The peaks are so close here.
I can't know for sure the altitude, but I'd guess at least a couple thousand feet.
Flat Top seen from the parking lot. It's still a GOOD ways up there.
The valley. I belive this is Powerline Pass.

Mooses!
There were about 12 of them in this valley.

But by the time we found them, it was almost too dark to take pictures.
Mountains across the Arm.

I don't know the name of the left one, but the right one is Mt. McKinley. It's REALLY big.