When traveling, one should
expect the unexpected.
I first agreed with Vitor,
my host, to forget about hitch-hiking until Whittier. He offered to
give me a ride there. Paying for gas and riding there would be much
safer and the least expensive way to avoid missing my ferry.
To access Whittier, we had
to go to the end of the bay, the Cook Inlet. Then we take a tunnel
(the North America's longest railroad-highway tunnel!) and end up in
a bay on the other side of the mountain. Whittier is located in
Prince William Sound. The whole ride is about 100 km (60 miles).
The
more we drove, the more terrible the weather conditions were. More
and more wind, snow and rain, ice on road. Arrived in front of the
tunnel, we were told that the weather conditions on the other side
are even worse. The ferry hasn't even left the previous harbour. But
not that much info.
What
shall I do? No accommodation cheaper than $100 in Whittier. Not even
sure that the ferry will leave tomorrow. OK. Let's go back to
Anchorage. Once arrived, I checked my emails. The boat is not
cancelled but delayed. Departure foreseen tomorrow evening. Anyway,
we had a very fun ride and the road is amazing. It goes along the bay
and the surrounding mountains fall in a sheer drop.
No comments:
Post a Comment