We flew to Anchorage in the middle of June to begin our Alaskan cruise tour with Holland America, meeting up with our friends P and R for this big adventure. We only had one full day to check out Anchorage before heading to Denali on the fancy pants train, so we hit the ground running. One of my favorite activities was touring the Alaskan Aviation Museum. That's where we got to see lots of the float planes I found so intriguing.
Our train ride to Denali National Park on the McKinley Explorer the following day was amazing. We rode on the upper level with walls of windows to the beautiful scenery. After a whistle stop in Talkeetna, we enjoyed a tasty lunch in the dining car below. Our train tour narrator told us how lucky we were to be able to have such clear views of the highest mountain peak in North America at 20,310 feet. Covered in snow, I initially thought it was just a large cloud formation.
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