Day 6 - Sep 5, 2000 Last updated: 9/5/00 10:00pm AKDT
No pictures today. Spent 8 hours on a train, didn’t take many pictures. More views of trees and mountains. Although the train cars were extremely comfortable, 8 hours of travel is 8 hours of travel. If you ever decide to take the train between Fairbanks and Anchorage, go Princess. They have the largest train cars with the most windows. It was interesting to see the difference in fall foliage colors as we made our way south. When we were in Fairbanks, about half the trees were yellow. By the time we left Denali, almost all the trees were yellow. In Anchorage, the trees appear to be just starting to turn.
Lunch and dinner were in the dining car on the train. For lunch, I had the reindeer sausage chili, which wasn’t very spicy and Denise had the shrimp pasta salad. Both were OK, but nothing special. For dinner, I had the buffalo meatloaf and Denise had the pineapple chicken, again both OK but nothing special. However, when it comes to desert, Princess knows how to please. Denise had some multi-fruit pie, which had raspberries, apple, rhubarb, and strawberry, and I had a chocolate cake with hot fudge dripped on it. Both of the deserts were outstanding. YUM!
We met some nice people on the train rides. Some were following roughly the same itineraries as us. We kept running into each other over the last few days and expect to see them again.
Tonight, we stay at the Ramada, which looks like the nicest room so far, which is a surprise since it is also the cheapest. We pick up a rental car tomorrow, which we will keep for the duration of the trip. Unfortunately, the Ramada shuttle bus won’t be able to take us to Alamo until 9:30am, an hour later than we originally planned. So tomorrow will get off to a later start. That’s OK, the Ramada has a free breakfast buffet.