Alaska - Day 3

This may be the most beautiful place I have ever seen. We are on the road again driving East towards Wrangle St. Elias. The entire road winds through the mountains, which are becoming progressively rockier and snow-capped. The trees are changing too. The hills are dotted everywhere with needle-like spruce trees. It all seems so surreal. Yesterday we hiked on our first glacier and I felt like I was in Antarctica. There are crevasses and stress lines and melt pools and waterfalls and rivers that snake and shoot across the surface like water slides, and the water is the best I have ever had. You could kneel down and lap it up like a glorious wild animal.

It is still surprisingly warm out. Nothing but sun and sandals. Seriously. The sun is out all the time. It does not get any darker until around 3 in the morning, when it starts to look like dusk. And by 5 it is back to high noon. I have lost all sense of time. I never realized how much of a drain it is always having to check a watch or know what time it is, being free of it is beautiful. We have been having dinner around 9 or 10 each night, and it is difficult to get a full nights sleep. I've taken to napping when I can at random intervals and it is fantastic. I feel like I could go forever. The mountains look like the alps now. This is a remarkable place.