Friday, August 15, 2008

Anchorage: Met with the Bums

August 13, 2008 Wednesday

We finally met up with Ali and Pat of bumfuzzle.com fame and had breakfast at Snow City Café in downtown. They are true world travelers. They’ve sailed around the world and are now driving the land parts in their 1958 VW camper that draws attention everywhere they go. Even our waiter stepped away from his busy morning to check out the “the bus”. We highly recommend visiting their website www.bumfuzzle.com, but be forewarned, it is hard to stop once started and the story is ongoing. They are a young down-to-earth couple doing what many dream about. To those inclined, go to this Link and click on "Buy the Bums a Pizza".






We started making our way back to Puyallup, slowly, but we wanted to get to Canada before night fall. Leaving after breakfast Bruce drove for next 9.5 hours. The Glenn Hwy met up with the Alaska Hwy and we encountered a lot of road work along the way.
Drunken trees at the edge of the lake, kinda like Texans at the lake.

Driving on the Alaskan Hwy is like riding in a commercial jet in moderate turbulence. The permafrost (ground frozen under the surface) under the highway melts irregularly producing a wavy, rolling, driving surface. Also, much of the highway is under construction so many parts are gravel. The windshield is at risk from flying gravel. From Anchorage to Tok we’re pleased to see we’re getting 19mpg.

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