Our travel group, including Tom and Mary Jo Smith and Bill's cousin Joe Cotton, had breakfast this morning at the Roadhouse Cafe in Talkeetna. The town and the cafe are the inspiration for the TV series "Northern Exposure." We walked to the river to see the ice break up and it sure looked like Minnesota to me. The picture (above) was taken by Xuanla Tan (right). She graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) in landscape architecture, worked three years in NYC and is seeing the rest of the USA before returning home to China, where she will live where the best job offer is. She proudly displays her reindeer breakfast casserole.
