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Glacier View River Retreat near Anchorage, Alaska, hosts a charming event each July 4: launching cars, trucks, and RVs off a cliff and down 300 feet to their doom.
Outside jaunting car Ireland, c. 1890–1900. A jaunting car is a light two-wheeled carriage for a single horse, with a seat in front for the driver. In its most common form with seats for two or four persons placed back to back, with the foot-boards projecting over the wheels and the typical conveyance for persons in Ireland at one time [1] (outside jaunting car).
Irish jaunting car, or outside car (1890–1900) Jaunting car: a sprung cart in which passengers sat back to back with their feet outboard of the wheels. Karozzin: a traditional Maltese carriage drawn by one horse or a pair; Kid hack: a van used in the US for carrying children to and from school. Landau: A low-shelled, luxury, convertible carriage.
A wainwright's workshop. A wainwright or cartwright is a trades person skilled in the making and repairing of wagons and carts.The word wainwright is the combination of the archaic words "wain" (a large wagon for farm use) and "wright" (a worker or maker), originating from the Old English wægnwyrhta. [1]
A town outside Anchorage, Alaska has a Fourth of July tradition the Founding Fathers never could've imagined: launching cars off a cliff while spectators cheer.
Quickly, she realized the roads she was accustomed to driving in Alaska winter had been ... Nov. 17—Last week, as a heavy blanket of snow fell on Anchorage, day care owner Crystal Culp got a ...
A Princess Tours train in 2007. Princess Tours is an Alaskan sightseeing passenger car service owned by Princess Cruises and operated by its Rail Division. Princess Tours runs ten cars a day (five north, five south) from Anchorage to Fairbanks on the Alaska Railroad, stopping at Talkeetna, Denali, and occasionally Whittier.
In 2021, Alaska was ranked by Bumper.com as the worst state in the U.S. for electric vehicle ownership. [3] As of 2021, Alaska is the only state in the U.S. where a company other than Tesla—in this case, Nissan—comprises a plurality of the state's electric vehicle market. [4]