Gorgeous day – full of sun and reasonable temps. Finally off the ship (the gangway thing again!) and across the street (literally) for the car. Easy! We are on the road fast and out of town in a heartbeat. Heading to Leavenworth for lunch then Roslyn – where they filmed the outside scenes of Northern Exposure. Fun!
Spectacular drive up into the mountains. It’s gorgeous, mountains still snow capped, rising up high up into the sky. Following the mountain road, winding up and around passes (Stevens Pass!) and past ski resorts, it takes over 2 hours before we finally get into Leavenworth.
It’s an adorable little Bavarian town in the middle of the mountains. Everything is in the Bavarian style – the architecture, the restaurants, shops and bakeries. Too fun! We have lunch at Munchen Haus – a brat/sausage place where we sit outside in the glorious sunshine and scarf down an awesome bratwurst and a very different chicken sausage – both accompanied by the best apple cider sauerkraut! Yum! We walk our lunch off while wandering the little German Village looking streets, then hop back in the car to complete our loop to Roslyn.
More mountain roads, the rain comes, the rain goes. Then there’s a little bit of sun. We roll into Roslyn and it’s just like being in Cicely Alaska – well, ok, sort of! But how fun! We can walk down the street where Joel has his office, and across the street is the general store run by Ruth Ann (and it looks just like the store in the show!). On the corner is the bar that Hollins and Shelley own – then there’s KBHR radio – which is still set up as the radio station store front where Chris would broadcast! Too, too fun! You can totally understand why they chose this town for the outside scenes. Easy access to a major city (Seattle is only an hour or so away). The right look and feel for Alaska – all the old wood buildings. It’s great!
Back in the car – we head back to Seattle. Pit stop at the grocery store for supplies and gas – then sit in massive traffic getting back on the highway. Wow! There are 3 huge entrance/exits all at the same place and it is crazy. But the drivers are all so polite. Everyone merges nicely (just like a zipper!!!), no road rage, the guy in front of us even hand signals to us that we should be in the HOV lanes! How nice was that? Just as impressive as the traffic!
Takes us a while to get back into town, but once there, it’s a breeze to drop the car and walk back to the ship. Fun day!
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