mcnally
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Sep 22 07:29 UTC 2003 |
> I was going to say that one thing you could have done instead of renting
> a car is taken one of those Kenmore Seaplanes down to Lake Washington.
> Then you could bus down to SeaTac.
A seaplane would've been fun but not practical for what I wanted, which was
to have some transportation to get around Seattle while I was in the area.
The simplest (and definitely cheapest) way to get back would have just been
to take the airport shuttle straight from Anacortes to SeaTac.
> What sort of supplies did you grab that aren't local in SE AK?
Some clothes (maybe not literally unavailable in Ketchikan, but in my size,
at least, much easier to find in Seattle), some electronics (replacement
power adaptor for my Mac laptop, for example), and some frozen specialty
foods (including a much-treasured pile of frozen deep-dish pizzas from
Delfino's in U Village) for when I just have to have something tastier than
what's available from the local restaurants..
Though this isn't necessarily true of smaller towns in the area, it's pretty
easy in Ketchikan to get more or less anything you really *need*. If I may
have initially found the retail offerings in Ketchikan lacking then my visit
to Klemtu, BC, provided a healthy dose of perspective..
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