How does Alaska celebrate July 4? With a parade, of course, so the Alaska on the Go family took a time-out from planning four (yes, four) trips to watch the good citizens of Anchorage gather together for a bang-up Independence Day.
There were fire trucks, a reindeer, a community band; you name it, we had it. It felt honest, real, and the sunshine just topped it all like cherries on an ice cream sundae.

Star the Reindeer makes tracks down the street. One Star or another has been in parades for 50 years!
AK Kid and I depart tomorrow for a book-signing at Denali Princess Wilderness Lodge in the heart of “Glitter Gulch” (Nenana Canyon). It was nice to spend today as a family, relaxing and cheering on a state that has as much independent moxie as our nation’s founding fathers.
Pretty cool.
Follow along this week, I think it’s going to be nearly as exciting as the parade.
~EK