Alaskan Cruise Vacay Day 2:Driving around town 062917

Assessed damage from the bottle breaking in Amy's bag and realized that on top of all her clothes smelling like rum, her toiletry bag was partially melted. After having breakfast with Rock, we drive around town looking to replace the toiletry bag. After finding a suitable replacement, we drive around downtown and wind up at the coastal trail to walk around a little bit. Had some interesting signs and places for people to repair their bike along the way. Then we decide to try and hit up some breweries, first trying to go to Anchorage however it is still closed. So we drive around the corner to Midnight sun brewery.

Found a trail sign for the Coastal Trail.

Little bike repair station. Pretty cool.

Reduce speed for moose? Also, great view from the park. 

Pretty flowers. 

Flowers growing along the coastal trail.

Found a brewery open this early so lets check it out.

Some flights at Midnight sun brewery. Can you guess who ordered the dark beers?

Have a few beers and decide since we have the car and plenty of allowed miles, we drive up to Talkeetna to get a glimpse of the nature in the area. Its a long drive, but there are some nice views on the way. Eventually get to the village which is really touristy but since we came all this way, we get out to walk around, grab a late lunch, and check it out. Wind up at Denali Brew Pub which had a great selection of beers which are ok. The sandwich (sriracha chicken) was small with minimal veggies on it. After walking around a little bit more, we head back to Anchorage. On the way back, we see a camper that apparently veered off the road, crashed, and became engulfed in flames and smoke was still billowing up as we drove by. Get back into town and are told that its common to see moose down in earthquake park so we go down there to see us some moose. We walk around quite a bit and see no moose anywhere. We do find lots of mosquitoes when we go off the path so we learn to stay on the path to stay away from them. After a couple miles walking on the trail, we return back to the house, shower, and get ready for bed.

Looks like a good place for a bite and some beers.

Did a little flight at Denali brewing company.

Ice cream shack right next to the brewing company.

Found this small, cute coffee shop as we walked around talkeetna village so we decided to grab a glass.

Texas mug at a small coffee shop in talkeetna. 

Beautiful mountains in the distance. 

Looks like this forest saw a fire not too long ago. 

Stopped at a lake on the outskirts of town on the way in to walk around a little bit and take a break from the car ride.