Fortunately, Hong Tao did not say this conclusion, otherwise he would have been despised to death by the bus driver. That black driver is sure to say, "Hey, bro! Wipe your eyes and look again, that's not snow, that's ice, that's glacier!

However, Hong Tao quickly understood on his own, because there were many Xiaoice mountains floating in the lake, and in the distance it looked not white, but light blue. Hong Tao also deliberately went down to the lake and reached out to fish out a piece of floating ice, and asked Erin to hold it and take pictures with the glacier as a background. This piece of ice is different from all the ice that Hong Tao has ever seen, it is not a particularly transparent texture, the ice is covered with fine lines like Ru porcelain and countless small bubbles, at first glance, it is not directly frozen with water, but more like frozen together with snow.

Hong Tao didn't pay too much attention to the glacier opposite, there was nothing to see about that thing, one glance was enough, unless you studied geology, it was useless to see too much. Hong Tao paid more attention to the lake in front of him, and when he started to fish for ice just now, he deliberately put his face close to the surface of the water and smelled the smell of the water in the wind.

The result made him very excited, there is a faint fishy smell here, which proves that there are fish in this lake, since there are fish, Hong Tao instinctively began to observe that position on the shore of the lake is more suitable for hanging, that part may be a fish passage, if you come here to fish, you should choose the best location......

"You've fouled! You said you came out to play with me and didn't fish, but you were thinking about fishing again. "Erin really can't stand it on the side, everyone else is you to take pictures of me, I will take pictures of you, and there are people who go to the lake to walk, only Hong Tao has his hands on his waist, and he is like a revolutionary predecessor pointing out the country, standing on a high slope and looking at the lake in a daze, he is too familiar with this virtuous Erin, he must be pondering the fish in the water.

"Oh, not for example! Not an example! Not intentionally. It's all going to cost me, I apologize! I plead guilty! Looking at Irene's pursed mouth, Hong Tao realized that he was distracted again. But it doesn't matter, American girls and Chinese girls have different habits, when they are angry, as long as you sincerely apologize, you will be fine immediately, as for what you think about the root of your thoughts, whether you will commit it in the future, they basically don't care, and apologize next time.

After seeing the glacier, head back to the pier. It only took a little over 1 hour to come and go and the cruise ship didn't leave until dinner so there were still a few hours to splurge. Squandering is profligacy, but there is nothing to buy in this Juno City, Hong Tao and Erin even inquired and searched, and finally found a restaurant, first solve the problem of the stomach, and then talk about the afternoon.

In the afternoon, the streets were less crowded, and Hong Tao and Erin didn't want to go up the mountain by cable car anymore, and they didn't want to get back to the boat so early. I just held hands and wandered around the town. Not to mention, they inadvertently planted willows and willows, and actually let the two of them find a small museum about gold diggers.

It's a museum, but it looks like a small hotel. It's just that there is an extra line of writing on the wall outside the door. The owner of the museum is a middle-aged man named Ian. Bridge, according to his own account, was involved in the site selection and construction of the city by his ancestors. At the beginning, he was also one of the many gold diggers who struggled here.

Ian, an electronics engineer himself, originally worked for the Boeing company in Seattle, but he stumbled upon a diary left by his grandfather. I was very interested in the life of the gold diggers back then. With the support of the city government, he raised his own funds to collect all the information and items about the gold diggers of the time, and after four years of hard work, he finally built this small museum.

The museum has only 4 small rooms in total, and it tells the life of gold diggers before and after the establishment of Juno City, and most of the items are tents, horse lanterns, pickaxes and other items used by gold diggers back then, and there is a small model of the gold panning process. The most valuable thing in the whole museum is a small bag of sand gold, about 10 grams, which is full of small golden particles of low purity. Back then, the gold diggers dug up sand and gravel in a mountain stream, and then used the impact of the stream to dig these small particles out of the massive amount of sand and gravel with simple wooden tools.

Hong Tao is not most interested in this museum, nor how to pan for gold back then, this thing doesn't have to travel so far to see here, just find a documentary to understand it all. It is Ian who is most interested in Hong Tao, and it is difficult for him to imagine why an engineer working for a large company like Boeing would leave his lucrative job and run back to this small city without trains or cars to build a museum. Moreover, the museum is free to visit, except for a small amount of money allocated by the Juno city government every year, and the rest of the expenses have to be sponsored by various places.

Could it be that Ian has an addiction to begging for help? Or is he from a wealthy family and belongs to the kind of person who has nothing to do? When Hong Tao inked for a long time, he couldn't help but ask this question in a very Chinese euphemistic language, Ian didn't understand what Hong Tao was saying, and finally Erin told him what Hong Tao meant again in a straightforward way, and he answered very simply.

"Because I want to do it, and if I don't do it, then when I get old, I will regret it, and then I may not be able to do it."

As for the source of livelihood, Ian said that his family is not a wealthy family, his wife is an ordinary employee of Boeing, his parents are retired, and there are two children in school, and he now has basically no income every month, and he relies on his wife to support the family alone.

For Ian's very simple answer, Hong Tao can only attribute this idea to cultural differences and different living environments, in the United States, Hong Tao found that many people have this kind of thinking, as long as I want to, I will do it, as for whether it can succeed, it is God's problem, they are only responsible for doing it or not!

In fact, there is one such person by Hong Tao's side, and his wife Erin plans to quit her job in the law firm to take care of Hong Tao's half-dead human trafficking company, even if a person like Hong Tao doesn't like to go to work, he will be startled by Erin's completely thoughtless thoughts.

But looking back and thinking about it carefully, Lao Mei's lifestyle of doing whatever she wants, and completely reckless lifestyle is not without benefits. The reason why the United States has become a technological power is related to this risk-taking mentality, and many new things are created by these impulsive individuals.

Of course, this is also thanks to the country's welfare system, at least they don't have to worry about whether their children will not be able to afford to go to school and whether their families will live on the streets if they fail to take the risk. Even the man in the dumpling shop in New York can make thousands of dollars a month without doing anything, so there is naturally not much pressure to live. Chinese often say: people are stress-free and fluttering! But it is precisely because of the lightness that I can have the brain to ponder more other problems, to do things that seem to be inconsequential, and to be more creative.

In addition to this small museum, Hong Tao also found a library on the main street of the small town. Although there are not many people on the street outside, there are many people in the library, all of whom are immersed in their seats and reading books. There are both young and middle-aged people in the prime of life, as well as gray-haired old people, and Hong Tao, an old lady on crutches, saw 2 of them.

According to the Chinese concept, this small city is at least a border town, just like the remote towns on the Sino-Soviet border or in Yunnan and Tibet. In his previous life, Hong Tao worked as a person in a tourism company, and once followed an important customer to a lot of places in China, even in a very popular tourist attraction area, he never saw a library set up on the main street of a tourist attraction, this kind of area is generally a restaurant, tourist souvenir shop, hotel and restaurant site, no matter how bad it is also the location of the local government agency, such as the library, which does not make a penny and loses money in it, how far should it be for me to roll how far.

At around 5 p.m., the cruise ship left the city of Juno on time and continued north along the fjord waterway, and according to the itinerary, the next stop should be a port called Skagwe. At this time, just in time for the waiter of the cruise ship restaurant to come to the room to deliver food, Hong Tao wanted to know what was there to do in this Skagui, so he gave the waiter an extra $10 tip, intending to let him introduce the Skagui excursions.

"Can you see it without the aurora?" After Hong Tao listened to the young man's introduction of a lot of projects such as dog sledding, taking a helicopter to see the snowy mountains, taking a small train, etc., he didn't mention the aurora, and he was a little dissatisfied.

"Aurora? No, it's not enough latitude here, it's hard to see the aurora, if you want to see the aurora you have to go to Anchorage or Fairbanks, it's winter over there, there is ice on the sea, and the cruise ship can't pass. The waiter in the restaurant looked at Hong Tao like a fool.

"! I've been cheated again! This grandson! Hong Tao didn't bother with the waiter anymore, and after he left, he immediately took out his world travel brochure, flipped to the map of Alaski and looked at it a few times, and then threw the book away, and began to curse.

"Who lied to you? Are they overcharging us? As soon as Erin heard that she had been deceived, she put down her knife and fork.

"It's not a fraud, alas, it can't be considered a lie, who told us not to look at the map carefully, this is not Alaska at all, and it can't be said that it is not Alaska, but it is not the real Alaska!" Hong Tao really suffered a dumb loss this time, he put the map in front of Erin, and then put the itinerary aside for Erin to see for herself. (To be continued......)