Yes, thanks for sharing all that. Sounds like a great time. All-in, how long were you gone from CO to AK?
We left on a Friday evening, and got back home Monday morning, a week later. That made 8 days of doing stuff.
One thing I found is that Anchorage is pretty boring. It seems like a great place to use as a launching point to do other stuff, some even very nearby, but two whole days of wandering around the downtown area was 1.5 days too much. Despite the huge tourist industry, nobody is there to see Anchorage. To its credit, finding good food was easy.