Friends   ---

This is perhaps the most astounding thing about our trip to Anchorage, Seward, and Valdez.  By no means do I wish to diminish from the grandeur and majesty of the mountains, the vastness of the glaciers, or the beauty of the water falls.  We have seen other mountains, we grew up in Colorado with the Rockies and numerous water falls.  There were, however, no glaciers in Colorado.  We visited Glacier National Park in Montana a few years ago, but those glaciers were mostly gone.

Last year nearly a half million passengers rode the Alaska Railroad.  Probably about that many will again this year.  The passenger trains run daily from mid May to mid September and on weekends the rest of the year.  In one car I counted 80 seats and our train had five passenger cars.

We were assigned our seats.  So what are the chances that in the seats right in front of Elva and me would be someone we knew?!  Imagine our surprise when someone exclaimed, "Mr. Evers!"  Elicia Olsen was assigned the seat right in front of us!  She is no longer Olsen, she was with her husband Dustin Lindahl.  They live in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where they own a business of doing Christmas decorating for their clients.  And, her brother Barnabas was there also.  He is married and has a year old daughter.  He is in the Air Force.  We talked about high school, recent things we have done, and Christianity in Alaska.  

Elicia and Dustin

Barnabas, Lauryn, and Emma (she was sleeping)

Proud teacher with former students.

Alaskans say they often run into people they know from various places, I certainly agree.

To me, this was the most amazing part of the trip!

Larry and Elva

God is love