A week before Scott Traveled from Florida, Adam sent a link to a CNN story via text.
"Want to go to Whittier, Alaska?" Adam asked.
Scott watched the story below over dinner in Orlando.
"Um, it looks like one of the most depressing places on earth," Scott thought sitting at his kitchen table in Florida.
Whittier, Alaska is a city that is housed inside one high rise condo building. Isolated on Prince William Sound, the city government office, grocery store, library and apartment buildings are all located in the same building.
Today, you can access the town by driving through North America's longest tunnel for cars... and trains.
The A-Frame entrance to the tunnel leads to an 11-mile long passage built for cars and trains both. A tight schedule allows cars to travel in one direction each hour, along with a train.
Both cars and the train use the same road, with the train tracks embedded in the road.
We drove around the iconic housing building, a Soviet-style military building long abandoned and took in Prince William Sound with an ice cream cone.
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