Our flight to Anchorage, Alaska took a fairly circuitous route; first to Philadelphia then to Anchorage by flying over Buffalo, NY and over northern Canada before going down to Anchorage. I found it quite amazing that getting a direct flight to Anchorage from Atlanta was fairly difficult. Even with Atlanta being Delta's largest hub, there wasn't anything. We had to settle for a one-stopper, but not any one-stopper would do since were we to miss our connecting flight, we'd be stuck until the next day. There aren't very many airlines that make more than one flight a day to Anchorage. Anyway, Angela and I were seated across from each other on the aisle (we prefer it that way so that one of us, meaning Angela, doesn't get stuck in the middle seat) .
The flight to ANC was a little late leaving, but we would up getting in more or less on time. Coincidentally, there was a couple sitting next to me that lives just a few neighborhoods away from us in Alpharetta. They were obviously going for a cruise (Celebrity out of Seward) and we talked about our different plans and whatnot basically the whole way. Angela sat next to a woman who was going commercial salmon fishing for 5 weeks. Quite the interesting summer vocation, I must say. 5 weeks on a 30-ish foot fishing boat working non stop catching sockeye and king salmon that are schooling up at the mouths of the rivers getting ready to head upstream to spawn. She said she can make upwards of $15,000 for those 5 weeks of work; not bad. Of course, you have to put up with “showering” with baby wipes and eating salmon 3 meals a day for 5 weeks. Now, I like salmon as much as the next guy, but I would probably be sick of it by the end of the season.
We got to our hotel by around 9:30pm local time (1:30am “body clock” time) and just had dinner in the hotel restaurant. The food was surprisingly good. Angela had a salmon salad melt on grilled sourdough bread and I had a sampler of “sliders” with halibut, reindeer sausage, and hamburger.
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