Whittier Alaska
A couple of years ago Richard and I decided to spend out anniversary at the Historic Anchorage Hotel, Anchorages “haunted hotel”. In the morning we were talking about what to spend the day doing and we decided why not take a drive out to Whittier. One might think that taking a drive to a small town about 60 miles away would be an easy task, but Alaska is not an easy place to get around. Much of our state is off the road system, meaning it cannot be accessed by car. Now Whitter can be driven to but there is a catch, in order to get to the small town you must drive through a one-way train tunnel. Whittier History Whittier Alaska is located on the west side of Prince William Sound, it sits in an area that was traveled for many years by Native Alaskans, gold miners, traders and then the U.S. military. As relations between Japan and the United States began to decline in the late 1930’s the United States began to see, that Alaska was strategically important being lo...