Along the Turnagain Arm...

... part of Cook Inlet. The name seems appropriate, as the water seems to turn, again and again. The highway follows it for its entire length, skirts the end, then climbs to a pass.

I was dumbstruck by the scale of the place. Okay, I'm dumbstruck a lot anyway, but it's, well, big.

Here, I'm maybe halfway along the Arm, looking back toward Anchorage, which is on the other side of the distant gap between the mountains.

I had expected to take just a couple of hours to make the trip. The highway is excellent. I called my customer a couple of times to report that I would be 'later' arriving, because I kept stopping to take in the view.