It shot me out of a deep sleep like I've never been awakened before. Our house shook too...my wife said "the trash company dropped a trash can" to which I looked at her and said "yeah, our house always shakes like that when a trash can hits the street."
Seward, I absolutely love! Only place I've ever been, standing on the shore of the Pacific, breathing in the salt air, and looking at the snow-capped mountains on the edge of town. Gorgeous.
Air into Anchorage. Rented a van and saw the southern half to two thirds of the state. Let me tell you, that is a lot of driving.
Visited Seward, Anchorage, Wasilla, Palmer, Talkeetna, Healy, Fairbanks and Denali National Park. Amazing trip.
It's been 10 years since I was there - I took my family of 6 to a Salmon Bake the night we arrived and dropped a cool $400 for dinner. No alcohol and 3 of those meals were from the kids menu.
After that, we adjusted our dining plan for the remaining 9 days. Ate lunch at a Subway the following day and that set me back $100 - that was the heyday of Subways $5 footlong promo...Alaskans didn't get the memo. Footlongs were $11.50 and up.
My son just waited 1 hour and 25 minutes to get gas at Sheetz - I said son, you just went through a tank to replace it with another one. LOL
(Gas is $1.77.6 today)
Looking at the current radar for all of PA, that large area of rain in western PA is all ticketed for north of the turnpike. Our hope resides in something popping south of that main area.