ALASKA AT EIGHTY - DAY 3-4

Staying a couple of days in Angel Fire, NM. watched the small mountain village July 4th parade...





Next morning was the local Rotary Club Pancake Breakfast... $15 donation.



Had a nice chat with neighbors and locals, yet most "locals" are people from other states. Angel Fire is a ski resort village that attracts people mainly from Texas and Oklahoma. Why? Because Texas and Oklahoma don't have ski resorts.

The Texas Aggie joke is, if God wanted Texans to ski, he would have made bull sh*t white.

Then there are the Albuquerque residents who come up to the 8200' elevation to escape the hot summers.

Now that Colorado ski areas have gotten so expensive, more and more people from Colorado are buying here as it is their closest, still affordable, ski resort.

Tomorrow it's back on the road heading northwest.