"Welcome to Alaska!"

DATELINE: Anchorage 

And there it was:

"Ladies and gentlemen, let me be the first to welcome you to Alaska," the flight attendant said over the PA at 12:30am. 

Cedar Point had an I door roller coaster from 1990-2012 named "Disaster Transport."  The space-themed ride had a storyline where passengers left Ohio and arrived in Alaska. Exactly 25 years later, I made the trip (minus space pirates). 

The airport in Anchorage is earthy.  And busy at 12:30am. The designer here could easily get a job at Port Columbus.

The first welcome party? A moose!

Soon, Adam and Scott were reunited and ready to hit the road in the spirit of our European Adventure from two years ago. 

Where do you go in the middle of the night? To a TV station of course!

Welcome to KTUU under the cloak of darkness.  

"Our old station was a Hooters that went out of business," Adam says as we proudly turned down the road leading to his gorgeous facility. 

"Did it have the Christmas lights yet?" Scott asked.

"No. But we had to shoot a video around wooden columns," Adam explained about the old facility. 

You've heard the phrase, "Boys and their Toys?"  Meet Adam's big friend: News Star 2!

Nothing like running around the office at 1am!

And since this reporter is exhausted, we'll leave anchoring the morning show at KTUU to Adam's colleagues. 

Good night from Anchorage!