Day 1, Sunday May 30 ~ Enroute to Anchorage

We left home in the morning and joined some of the participants at Newark airport.  Others gathered at Logan airport.  Some hours later the two groups joined at the Minneapolis airport.  Then the long flight to Anchorage.  As we descended there were some breaks in the clouds and we had a few nice views.  We landed around 7:30pm and took taxis to the Westmark Hotel in town.  It was in the 60s and pleasant.  After a late supper everyone turned in.

Day 2, Monday May 31 ~ Enroute to Seward on the Kenai Peninsula

We left the hotel in Anchorage about 10.  Our first stop was a grocery store for provisions.  Then we left Anchorage going south on Highway 1.  We stopped at an overlook in Chugach State Park where had a view over Turnagain Arm.  About noon we stopped for lunch at the Westin Prince Hotel in the Alyeska Resort.

In the afternoon we took about a 3-mile hike at Crow Creek Mine, an active gold mine, where we talked to some of the miners. We arrived at the Windsong Lodge in Seward at 5pm.