We traveled to one of my "Bucket List" destinations, Alaska, this year. Although we'd gone on an Alaskan Inside Passage cruise 12 years ago, we really saw very little of the 3 ports we pulled in to so I wanted to explore the land more. This time we flew in to Anchorage, got a rental car and stayed at 2 different locations, both with a "shallow rapids" creek within view, (which is my favorite type scenery). Our first was a Vacation Rental By Owner (VRBO) outside of Willow, AK, which is just under a 2-hour drive NW of Anchorage. We stayed there 5 wonderful nights. Then we drove further NW and stayed at the McKinley Creekside Cabins, which are located 13 miles south of Denali National Park's main entrance. In all, we probably travelled about a 12-14 hours' worth of different main highways (just calculating one way each on each highway since the scenery was the same once we saw it) and the beauty of Alaska kept changing between several different geography styles. In short, it WAS BEAUTIFUL!!! I have arranged this gallery into sub-galleries, but if nothing else, please look thru the "Driving Around Alaska" gallery and the sub-gallery under the "Seward Day Trip" titled "400 Mile Day Trip" , to get an idea of just how gorgeous it is. One thing that surprised us overall, was how MANY RV's we saw on the road! They must do a huge business with RV rentals because we saw them everywhere, so now if (when) we go RV'ing, we'll plan at least a month-long visit to Alaska to see even more of it as the roads are in great shape. Another surprise was the wildlife we saw, which was very little... :( P.S. to any Taylor, TX residents, make sure you look at the last photo in my sub-gallery titled "Flying"; you may spot your property in it!