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Day 42
11. June
2000, Rest day
in Anchorage
With
250.000 inhabitants in Anchorage and 850.000 in Alaska, most American
would consider Anchorage to be a frontier city. For us, having spent the
past weeks around the Taklamakan, etc.
it is a centre of civilisation. We use the rest day to get our Mercedes
serviced, to go shopping and to eat out (avoiding any Chinese restaurants
for now). From the first day on we realize what we had already expected:
North America will be totally different from our route so far and while
we have been able to appreciate gradual changes in culture, people, landscape
and climate until now, we are now opening a new chapter. There is also
a new clerk of course and therefore slightly different procedures to the
rally.
Overall 1 hour 10
minutes penalty
The
official results can be looked up on this website
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Welcome to the
U.S.A....
...shopping-malls...
...coin-operated
laundry...
...but watch
out for these guys! They are not here to escort you and they won't
wave you through red lights.
"Now where
did I put that wrench?"
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...Fast-food
(ideal for rallys but only thirteen cities in Alaska have McDonald's)...
...supermarkets...
...big cars...
...English-language
TV with generally uncensored news...
Mercedes-Benz
Anchorage opens for us on Sunday: the seven Mercedes-Benz from the
rally and one Bentley are meeting again.
We are doing a general service (oil, etc.) and are getting a new
set of tyres. The Taiwanese tyres we used before have done us good
service with not a single puncture (many others have had several
punctures).
Dinner at the
micro-brewery
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