Saturday, August 4, 2012

Our plane trip to Koliganek the next day was awesome. The plane sat 10, including the pilot, and was




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We stayed at the Merrill Field Inn. Merrill Field is the airport we would be flying out of, and the original Anchorage airport. It wasn't big enough to accommodate larger planes, and Ted Stevens International was built later. We picked Merrill Field Inn, not for its location, but for the free shuttle. We knew we would have to go to the grocery store, and needed to get from and to two different airports, and didn't want to pay for taxis, or rent a car. The shuttle driver described himself not as an Alaskan resident, though he had lived her for decades, but as a refuge of Nixon.
Our plane trip to Koliganek the next day was awesome. The plane sat 10, including the pilot, and was incredibly smooth, although a bit loud. We flew relatively high, above the cloud level. This was a new plane, at least new to Dena'ina Air Taxi, as was getting a direct flight to Koliganek. Previous planes hertz car rental las vegas all detoured through hertz car rental las vegas Dillingham, and flew at 1,000 feet, winding hertz car rental las vegas between the mountain passes. Hopefully we will someday make a trip in one of these smaller planes, as see the view from those heights.

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