Most military bases have monument planes (tanks, artillery pieces, etc.).

There are 2 eagles near the planes. They were injured and have been rehabilitated, but cannot be released.

Since we did not get to travel further on the peninsula than Anchorage, we didn't get to see many reminders of Russian heritage. Guess we'll just have to take a cruise!

Did we say there's always a lot of road construction?

A musk ox farm:

This area is known as "clean" (low sulfur emissions) and there are a lot of remnants of old mines>

The Matanuska Glacier Valley was part of a WPA experiment to bring farmers from Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota to Alaska to establish farms during the depression. Growing conditions are so ideal (including almost 24 hour sunshine in the summer) that this valley has produced some amazing vegetables including these Alaska record-holders: a 43 lb. beet, 3 foot bean, 138 lb. cabbage.

These bent poles are to guide the snowplows.

This helicopter is using a Bambi Bucket, used to scoop up water and drop it on fires.

We left Tok, AK, to head back into Canada on a rainy, overcast day, but we saw more wildlife this day than any other. Glad we have some metal around us.