{"id":1107,"date":"2014-07-20T06:24:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T06:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2014-07-20T06:24:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T06:24:56","slug":"the-meenans-take-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadtrip.meenan.us\/?p=1107","title":{"rendered":"The Meenans Take Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"P1050378\"<\/a>July 14 – We headed to Talkeetna, AK to K2 Aviation to do a flight around Denali and a glacier landing. \u00a0We stayed at Talkeetna Camper Park for the night. \u00a0We really enjoyed speaking with the current hosts. \u00a0They had a ton of information on what to do in the area and they also recommended some ideas for when we reached Homer, AK.<\/p>\n

Talkeetna is a small quirky town of less than 900 people. \u00a0If you do decide to stay here make sure you eat at Latitude 60 which has excellent food. \u00a0We ate here for lunch and dinner and we weren’t disappointed! \u00a0We also had breakfast at the Roadhouse in town. \u00a0They serve sourdough pancakes as big as your plate. \u00a0Even Pat was stuffed after eating one!<\/p>\n

\"DSCN2429\"<\/a>I do have to say that we have been totally spoiled on tour guides after our flight with John with Talkeetna Air Taxi. \u00a0We flew with K2 Aviation in a much larger airplane with 3 other people. \u00a0Our pilot was very mechanical with talking about the different peaks and general information. \u00a0We didn’t expect him to be a chatty Cathy but we did expect him to make an effort. \u00a0Our other two pilots were very friendly and very professional. \u00a0We all realized they needed to concentrate on the flight and that any information we would get would be secondary. \u00a0I think by having two excellent tour guides we may have expected more than we should have.<\/p>\n

\"P1050477\"<\/a>The other aspect about our flight was cloudy weather. \u00a0Pat didn’t get to join the 33% club as it was too cloudy to see the peak of Mt. Denali (aka Mt. Mckinley). \u00a0One last disappointment with our flight was that we were unable to land on the glacier. \u00a0We did get a refund, but after the disappointment with the bland tour guide and barely seeing the mountains, the glacier was the last hope to save the day. \u00a0At least we did get to eat dinner at Latitude 60.<\/p>\n

Later Y’all<\/p>\n

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