Day 11 – Wasilla and Talkeetna

This is the first day where weather caused us any serious problems.  We had scheduled a flight-seeing tour of the south face of Denali but the clouds were just too thick for them to fly.  We weren't super disappointed as we had seen it while flying down from Fairbanks but it still would have been cool to so some "bush" flying.  It also washed out a planned hike, but honestly we have done a bunch of hiking and might have skipped that anyway.

Sarah Palin's house in Wasilla

We stopped for lunch in the Talkeetna Roadhouse, which dates back to 1917.  It is pretty much of a hole-in-the wall place where you crowd in to eat family style.  We both had their sourdough pancakes.  Just one pancake is bigger than your plate! They claim the starter for the sourdough dates back to the goldrush days of 1902.

On the way back from Talkeetna, we stopped by in Wasilla to see Sarah Palin’s house.  You probably could just drive up there if you had enough nerve but there were warning signs at her gate and I didn’t feel like “going rogue”, so I just turned back and just took a picture from lakeside.  She is the second or third house in, so she is either white sea plane or the property just beyond.

Tomorrow will be our last day in Alaska so this will be my last post for this trip.  We have an 11pm flight tomorrow night and get to Philly around 2pm, so I’m sure we will be exhausted.