Talkeetna

I've had my car at a local repair shop for the last few days (see my RAV4 recall article) to see if they can find out what's wrong with it. It has an intermittent "power lag" problem, but with it being intermittent, and only being worse on cold and wet days, they haven't been able to find it. (Amazingly it has been sunny and warm for the last two days, but much cooler today.)

I've lived in Alaska on and off for almost a year now, and still haven't seen the Northern Lights, so when I checked the University of Alaska-Fairbanks aurora page and it said the aurora was going to be active the next few nights, well, let's just say that I'm throwing some food, water, and clothes in the car at 8:30 p.m., and heading farther north, in search of clear skies.

Adios, amigos ...

I lived in Talkeetna, Alaska for nearly six months in 2007, and I still visit there as often as I can. For me, it's my adopted home town, and I may move back there in the fall. I haven't stayed in all the Talkeetna lodging locations -- and new options keep popping up every year -- but I do know many of them very well.

I lived in Talkeetna, Alaska for nearly six months in 2007 -- just across the street from the Talkeetna Hostel -- and I still visit there as often as I can. For me, it's my adopted home town, and I may move back there in the fall. I haven't stayed in all the Talkeetna lodging locations -- and new options keep popping up every year -- but I do know many of them very well.

I lived in Talkeetna, Alaska for nearly six months in 2007, and I still visit there as often as I can. For me, it's my adopted home town, and I may move back there in the fall. I haven't stayed in all the Talkeetna lodging locations -- and new options keep popping up every year -- but I do know many of them very well.

So, in an effort to share this information, here is some information about Talkeetna, Alaska cabins, including phone numbers and map locations.

I lived in Talkeetna, Alaska for nearly six months in 2007, and I still visit there as often as I can. For me, it's my adopted home town, and I may move back there in the fall. I haven't stayed in all the Talkeetna lodging locations -- and new options keep popping up every year -- but I do know many of them very well.

So, in an effort to share this information, here is some information about Talkeetna, Alaska bed and breakfast locations, including phone numbers and map locations.

After enjoying a beautiful day out on Hatcher Pass, I started to look around the town of Willow, Alaska, but decided I was tired, and headed home to take a nap. My short nap was quickly interrupted by a 5.0 earthquake, centered about 40 miles WNW of Wasilla.

Here's an image from the U.S.G.S. website, showing the location and magnitude of the earthquake:

Talkeetna, Alaska is known for several things, including some really good restaurants. Over the past few years my favorite restaurant in Talkeetna was the Wildflower Cafe, and also a bistro place whose name I can't remember at the moment.

This is a little unusual, but I've posted some photographs from Talkeetna, Alaska on one of my other sites, in this article about Pentax K-x camera sample photos.

I was going to post them here also, but a friend of mine warns me that Google doesn't like it when you post duplicate content, so I'm trying to abide by that warning.

I'm not sure what happened to all the ravens in Alaska -- specifically the ravens that were in Wasilla, Alaska -- but they have all gone ... somewhere.

I was reminded of this yesterday when I saw a few ravens in Talkeetna. (Talkeetna is about 75 minutes north of Wasilla.) There were a few there, but not many, maybe three. This is in stark contrast to ravens being everywhere when I first moved back to Alaska in March and April. Several times I walked out of stores or restaurants only to be greeted by ravens looking for a handout.