{"id":95,"date":"2006-07-10T12:59:10","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/alaska\/friday-6302006-minneapolis-to-anchorage\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T13:50:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T19:50:57","slug":"friday-6302006-minneapolis-to-anchorage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/alaska\/friday-6302006-minneapolis-to-anchorage\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis to Anchorage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">[If you want to view the entire Flickr set from this trip, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/queen_of_subtle\/sets\/72157594194125238\/\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the link<\/a>!]<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Stephanie and I hopped on a plane to Anchorage at 5:15pm,  after the longest day at work, ever. The flight was uneventful until we flew over Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. The mountains were incredible.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/49\/186861596_c06856fe37.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" border=\"1\" height=\"500\" width=\"375\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"> We arrived in Anchorage around 8:30pm, and got our rental car, which we promptly named Captain Morgan (we&#8217;d have named him Captain Cook in honor of Alaska, but we&#8217;d already used that name in Hawaii). We found our hotel and checked in at 9:30, then followed the front desk lady&#8217;s directions to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glacierbrewhouse.com\/home.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Glacier Brewhouse<\/a>.  We were dazed by the time we got a table, due to the time difference; it was after 1am for us. I had a peach mojito and medium veggie pizza, both of which were excellent.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"> We got back to the hotel at midnight, and it was still light out. That didn&#8217;t impede our sleep much, though; we were exhausted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[If you want to view the entire Flickr set from this trip, here&#8217;s the link!] Stephanie and I hopped on a plane to Anchorage at 5:15pm, after the longest day at work, ever. The flight was uneventful until we flew over Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. The mountains were incredible. We arrived in Anchorage around 8:30pm, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16],"tags":[506,76],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"geo":{"latitude":61.21805570000000074060153565369546413421630859375,"longitude":-149.9002838000000110696419142186641693115234375,"description":"Anchorage, AK, USA"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Z5R-1x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":103,"url":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/alaska\/saturday-782006-seward-to-anchorage\/","url_meta":{"origin":95,"position":0},"title":"Hope, Alaska, and Back to Anchorage","author":"Jenni","date":"07.10.2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday morning, there were brand new cruise ships in the harbor. 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