Locate an Auto Repair Shop in Anchorage, Alaska

I am amazed how many people sell their homes and get an RV and travel around the country. I think we the tax payers are paying for a lot of them. People took out equity loans during the sub-prime time, and paid cash for a big fancy motor home. Then when the bubble burst they leave the house for the bank to deal with and drive off into the sunset. Beats the heck out of being homeless. I worked with a guy that spent his 3 weeks off in his RV parked at Walmart in Anchorage. There was a bunch of people living their. If you just wandered from one WM to the next you could get by real cheap. We took our RV on one trip after retirement and decided that was not for us. Stayed in motels every night. Let the cat stay in the RV.

Alaska has broken records for cold and snow fall this year. I talked to my buddy that moved to Anchorage in 1970 when I did. He said he can never remember this much snow. Not even close. I have not talked to him today. Sounds like they are getting a bunch more. They are finally ready to get out of AK and move where it is a bit warmer in the winter. Here is the place they are contemplating. http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/11005-E-Johnson-Ln-Cornville-AZ-86325/8779692_- zpid/ Here is his back yard as of last week.

Generally Snow machiners dress warmer than XC skiers. When it gets up to zero a mask is too warm and the humidity to high. Snow is better below zero as well. What was interesting is 20 below in MN was much colder feeling than 20 below in Anchorage area. I remember in the early 1980s, I would go from 40 below in Deadhorse to 20 below in Minnesota and freeze my butt off. Looking at the current temp in Alexandria MN it is 33 degrees and 94% humidity. That is very uncomfortable weather. Not to mention making the roads horrible to drive on if there is any snow left. Give me a warm rain in Hilo any day over most anyplace I have been. So far this GW is a bust. Our last 3 summers have been much below normal. Daytime temps this fall and winter are below normal. The strange part is overnight temps are above normal. I am used to winter temp swings from 28 overnight to 80 during the day. We are only swinging from 45-65 night and day. Very strange indeed. Some of my Plumeria still have their leaves. Still getting tomatoes. Much slower growing though.

Fun town; floated the Copper one year and a friend there had gone to Anchorage, but left their Subaru at the take-out for us and the keys to his house under the floor mat. Took the ferry back to our cars at Valdez a couple of days later. Alaska is getting all the fun weather this year. Valdez has around 6' on the ground, 18' has fallen. I don't think we've gotten 18 inches. It's not too late to get there, but you may want to wait until it's salmon berry picking time. Assuming extreme summer weather doesn't hammer them. ;)

You want to snowshoe, sounds like Cordova is your place to be. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Dozens of National Guard troops have arrived to help an Alaska fishing town dig out from massive snows that have collapsed roofs, trapped some people in homes, and triggered avalanches. Cordova is used to snow, but not like this season's blanketing. The Guard reported more than 18 feet of snow has fallen in the past weeks, although the National Weather Service did not immediately have a measurement. "There's nowhere to go with the snow because it's piled up so high," said Wendy Rainney, who owns the Orca Adventure Lodge. 37 years in Alaska and I never got to Cordova. I have friends that have a fishing permit for there. They invited me and I never made it. My son's job shut down because -15 degree weather in Wasilla. Kind of early for that kind of cold. I am sure most of AK would go for a little of the warming trend.