AND IN CONCLUSION!!

Before we put this blog to bed, as we say in the business, a final observation or two might be in order.

One is, the next time you're in Anchorage, be sure to visit the side lobby of the Captain Cook Hotel. I wouldn't get a room there. They're way overpriced. But you MUST go into the side lobby just to sit in the couch or one of the overstuffed chairs. The stuffing takes you in like a long lost child, and the surface gives the phrase " rich Corynthian leather" a whole new meaning.

Speaking of fine lodging, we spent a night at the airport La Quinta Inn in Seattle before our final flight back to Illinois. We mention this because our brother-in-law, Bruce Roberts, recently did some research on the origins of the phrase "la Quinta."  He unearthed that it comes from an ancient and nearly extinct Spanish dialect, and, roughly translated, means, "next to Denny's."

And guess what our La Quinta was right next door to? Yep, you guessed it, and it wasn't the International House of Pancakes.

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