Into Alaska - Alaska and Points North: Tips and Tales from the Road - page 105

fee. It's a rickety looking old building with incredibly narrow staircases leading to upper
floor bedrooms. The ground-floor parlour is replete with a wood stove, rag rugs and floral
wallpaper - all of it original. No themed franchise-style décor here. This is the real thing,
still in use today.
There is also a very good museum at Copper Center, in the usual style of these northern
museums, packed full of local memorabilia explained with hand lettered notes from the
owners.
Continuing on we arrived in Anchorage about 5 pm and took a spot at Centennial Camp-
ground, the municipal facility at the edge of town. Most good-sized towns seem to have a
municipal/city camping facility. Some are great, some not so much. They always attract a
lot of long term residents so how attractive they are is determined by how rigorous the su-
pervision is. In this case there were a few seedy-looking people wandering about. As soon
as we parked, one very dirty looking, bleeding man came over immediately to ask for food
and money. He had a story of hitchhiking 400 miles and being attacked by a bear. We gave
him food but no money so that was the last we saw of him.
After connecting with some Aussie friends for breakfast the next morning we headed down
the Kenai Peninsula. Every turn in the road presents one more photo opp - glacier after
glacier after glacier slithering down the magnificent mountains of the north.