Lake Hood is home to both float planes and bush planes. 9000 planes in all.
When we arrived in Wasillla we heard that Anchorage has a farmers market every Saturday. We took off this morning to check out the market and explore a little of Anchorage. This market was similar to Palmer’s market but quite a bit larger. The market was a really nice way to spend time downtown in beautiful weather but we didn’t buy anything. We were hungry leaving the market and I had already spied the 49th State Brewery Company. The brewery was a very nice brew pub with nice views of the bay. After lunch we wound our way over to Lake Hood. Lake Hood is home to a float base and bush plane land runway with 9000 airplanes. We wandered around the float plane base and the airplane parking areas enjoying the planes. Eventually we arrived at the Alaska Aviation Museum. We had come here 5 years ago and really enjoyed it. Back then it had the coolest aviation gift store we had seen. The museum was ok and this time the gift store was nothing special so it was kind of a let down. The museum contains aircraft that relate to the Alaska flying and also contains some really cool exhibits on the WW-2 Japanese invasion of, and expulsion from the Aleutian Islands. On returning to Wasilla we had the oil changed in the Jeep. I wish it was that easy for the coach. Technically the coach oil change was due in May but it will have to wait until I get home in September.