A Florida Cracker in the Last Frontier

Cheeseburger in Paradise - Jimmy Buffett Unfortunately I didn't take pictures but maybe I will in the future. Every Friday for the last two months or so I have taken the family to different local burger places in Anchorage. Lorrie had the idea and I had been thinking about it too, list each place and talk about what we liked, didn't like, cost, etc. Tommy's Burgers $$$$ - Lorrie liked the burgers here best. The fries were good. The thing that                                         bothered me were long wait, small cramped restaurant, and by far the most                                         expensive place we went. Hamburger Haven $ - Best value by far. They had the best onion rings and fried okra. The fries                  ...

Magic Bus by The Who  https://youtu.be/bl9bvuAV-Ao In the book "Into the Wild" Chris McCandless travels to Fairbanks, Alaska, to try to venture out into the wilderness and be alone. If you've never read the book it is an amazing and tragic book. Chris finds an abandoned bus in the bush outside of Denali National Park and he names it "The Magic Bus". [Spoiler Alert] He dies in that bus after he eats some poisonous plants. In Healy, a small town just north of Denali there is the 49th State Brewery and they have a replica of the bus that was used for the movie which was based on the book. I took a bunch of pictures of myself and the kids at the bus, a very tourist thing to do. One of the benefits of my job is that I get to ride the public transit bus for free. In Tampa the bus is called the HART line (for Hillsborough Area Regional Transit) and in Anchorage it is called People Mover. I ride the bus to work because when we moved we sold my wife's miniva...