This blog is set up to record our adventure as we travel North America in our 5th wheel. We just retired this year and are staying at Wildwood Rv and Golf Resort.

Monday, October 22, 2007

Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage is Alaska's largest city-population 278,241. Anchorage has a daily maximum of 19 hours 22 minutes of daylight in summer and a maximum of 5 hours 27 minutes in the winter. The Good Friday earthquake of March 27, 1964, the worst quake recorded in North America- 8.6 on the Richter scale and caused more than $300 million in damages throughout southcentral Alaska.



Mt McKinley shrouded behind cloud cover.






































Park commemorating the earthquake of 1964

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