Last week I was in Dallas, TX attending the SQL PASS seminar. I went to Karaoke one night, closed the bar down, and on the drive back to my hotel I noticed a flashing TIME/TEMP sign on a bank.

1:34am

84 degrees

1:34am

84 degrees

Insane heat for 1:34am….

This week I am in Anchorage, AK. I have not found a Karaoke bar (yet!) so I have not found a blinker to tell me the temp at 1:34am. It would be safe to say though that it won’t be 84 given that it was 47 degrees yesterday afternoon when I landed at 3pm.

Yesterday, while trying to find the only listed PHO restaurant in town, I got a little turned around and had to drive into a subdivision to get going the other direction. Coming around a corner to an intersection, I saw my first live bull moose…..walking in the middle of the road. It was fantastic. Bigger than a horse. I didn’t get a picture of it (didn’t take my camera to dinner with me……I will from now on) but linked to one above. I drove right by this thing and it was massive. Unless you have seen one you can’t appreciate it’s size.

The leaves are turning earthtones of red, yellow with plenty of green pines still. It’s like an autumn bomb exploded and coated the landscape with the fallout of the changing season. The mountains that surround Anchorage are topped with snow and ice which will decend into the town over the next few few weeks and months. I would love to see Anchorage in the dead of winter, I bet it is stunning.

I will get some pictures posted later this afternoon once I have had a chance to run around…..

Cheers!