Aug 2: depart Boston 11:25 AM, arrive Minneapolis 1:29 PM; depart MN 2:35 PM, arrive Anchorage 5:20 PM
Pick up rental car, sleep at hotel near airport
Aug 3: Wake up bright and early and drive to Kenai, spend day enjoying scenery there.
Sleep
here Aug 4:
Drive to Homer, spend evening walking around the spit :)
Sleep
here Aug 5:
Spend day in Kachemak Bay State Park, stay another night in same inn.
Aug 6:
Drive to Seward, return car, spend day there, and attend evening pre-kayak trip meeting.
Sleep
here Aug 7-9:
KAYAKING TRIP!! Return Aug 9, sleep
here again.
Aug 10:
Day in Seward
Take
Coastal Classic Train back to Anchorage.
Sleep
here.
Aug 11: day in Anchorage, definitely visit
this museum, maybe some hiking in the area, stay another night at same place.
Aug 12:
Pick up rental car #2, drive to Healy (just outside Denali Nat'l Park>
Sleep
here for next three nights.
Aug 13:
Denali sightseeing flight, land on glacier, get out and walk around on the mountain!
Aug 14:
6 AM
shuttle bus reservation to head into the park and spend the day
Aug 15:
Drive to Talkeetna, spend day there
Sleep
here Aug 16:
Drive back to Anchorage, return car
flight departs Anchorage 7:05 PM
Sleep on plane
Aug 17: Arrive Detroit 5:13 AM. Depart Detroit 6:25 AM, arrive Boston 8:18 AM
phew! I AM SO EXCITED!!