I know, I know, we need to express gratitude and support for the most important renewable resource driving the economic engine of Alaska. Please enjoy your stay!
Update: As it happened, I was idly flipping through an old moldy hardcover collection of ancient New Yorker cartoons, and this panel by Charles Addams - one of the all-time greatest single-panel cartoonists in history - caught my eye. Having never seen it before, though honestly it might have been subconsciously buried from exposure as a child (it has happened before with Kliban panel), it serves as a good example of great minds flowing through the same gutter (ie multiple discovery).
The direct inspiration for mine came from all the attention being paid locally to recent and ongoing work being done on an iconic section of the single road into Denali National Park, that has been closed on account of landslides and necessitating extensive repairs. Anyone who's ever been on a vehicle and looked out the window while traversing this particular stretch of Polychrome Pass will immediately recognize the scene. Similarly, I can see how anybody familiar with Addams' piece would be forgiven if they would find it familiar as well - maybe he once vacationed in Alaska?
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