Anchorage to Seward

Having trouble with the wifi signal here....too weak to send photos. I'll post them later.

We left Anchorage early this morning....and took the Alaska Railroad to Seward, arriving 5 hours later. All we can say is WOW. There was so much to see, and with every curve of the rails there was another sight to behold. It was Marvelous!!! We saw Bald Eagles and mommy moose and her baby. Seward is a very small town of 5000 people that swells to 40,000 for the 4th of July. This is mainly due to the Marathon Mountain road race....3.2 miles up and then down again. Begun in the early 1900's on a bet in a bar (see the 1st photo) that no one could do it in an hour. Now there are 900 runners....needless to say they are nuts, as most of the course is a 30% grade. There are hundreds of RV's here....and no fireworks. Probably because it never gets dark here.....we were told that Alaskans just use their guns!!!

A picture is worth a thousand words...so here are some from the train after the bar photo showing Marathon mountain in the background.

Tomorrow a cruise on the fiords....until then.

Nancy & Ian