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We spent one night at the Alaska Talkeetna Lodge. Very nice. It's close to the Talkeetna Airport,
from which we took a flight on a Cessna 185 airplane. Scary, but wonderful! It was getting quite windy, and
a storm was looming on the horizon, looking rather ominous. We took the flight anyway, but the wind prevented
us from making our scheduled glacier landing, and the clouds prevented us from seeing Mt. McKinley. Nonetheless,
it was a great ride! (As long as I didn't look straight down!) The next day we took a jetboat ride on the
Susitna River. The river looked muddy due to the glacial silt, we didn't see any wildlife, and it started raining
hard when we got out of the boat to tour a trapper's cabin. This was not our best time in Alaska.
At least the boat was covered and it was very nice. The captain gave us one thrill: a high-speed, hair-pin, U-turn
that woke up the crowd!
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