Alaska is no Hawaii.
Where the Aloha State has white-sand beaches and tropical jungles, the Last Frontier has snow-covered mountain ranges, rolling tundra and a vast boreal forest. There are no palm trees or coral reefs here — then again, there are also no moray eels, no outbreaks of dengue fever and no foot-long, biting centipedes. In Alaska, the creepy-crawlies that often cluster around the equator are nowhere to be found.
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