- Pancakes for breakfast
- If it rains departure for Anchorage
- Exit in Anchorage
In keeping with today's departure from Denali National Park, it is raining. We make pancakes and drive back to the park entrance. There we use the internet in the local cafe and have a warm drink. I call home briefly, where everyone is celebrating August 1st together. We buy a subway sandwich for on the go and eat at one of the viewpoints. Then we drive south on the Parks Highway through Denali State Park. The route is - as it is overcast - pretty uneventful. In good weather you would have great views of the highest mountain in North America at 6194m, Mount McKinley is one of the climatically most extreme mountains on earth. It is only committed by significantly less than half of all mountaineers who try to do it successfully.
The traffic increases significantly from Wasilla and Palmer. We interrupt the long journey briefly for a soft drink at Starbucks in the giant Fred Mayers supermarket. Afterwards we drive to the RV park reserved by telephone in central Anchorage. For today's distance of 437km, our truck camper burned a record 93 liters of diesel. In any case, this way of traveling is not environmentally friendly. There is showering and washing. We take public transport to the center of Alaska's largest city by far, with a population of around 290,000. In a brewery we eat delicious fish dishes and drink local beer. Later we visit the Chilkoot Charlie, a discotheque.
