The tunnel through the mountain

The A-frame at the base of the big hill is actually the entrance to the one lane tunnel that goes through the mountain to Whittier where we boarded the Diamond Princess, our cruise ship. Every half hour a set of traffic lights, one on either side of the mountain, indicates whose turn it is to go. To my left, there were seven lanes of cars waiting for their turn-the van I was traveling in being one of them. The guy driving the van said he came to Alaska originally just intending to ski for a year and leave....six years later he's still there. He says Alaska is Colorado on steroids.