Day 7 Travel to Talkeetna

Today was a resting day. We have pushed so hard from one day to the next that, we use the traveling days to recoup from the rest of the vacation. We traveled by rail from Fairbanks to Talkeetna. It was a beautiful trip! We went almost all the way around Mt McKinney in our trip. It was an amazing site. It stood head and shoulders about everything else and was completely covered in snow. It was amazing!

We got to the lodge at about 4:00 in the afternoon and hung around for the rest of the night. The lodge is set back in a very remote part of Talkeetna (which is remote in and of itself). It is by far the nicest place that we’ve stayed so far. The lodge is beautiful. It’s got trails running for miles back behind it. We went for a small hike, but there are posters posted everywhere that said that there have been a lot of bear sightings lately and that hikers should beware. We walked for a while and came upon numerous bear scat piles (that’s poop), so we decided we wouldn’t go terribly far.

It was a great day of rest and recouping from a very full vacation.