1. [From cruise ship passengers] "What's the elevation here?" (Joe Sonneman)
2. [From non-Alaskans] "Where do all you people go in Winter?" (Joe Sonneman)
3. [On board cruise ship] "What time is the Midnight Buffet?" (Joe Sonneman)
4. [From passengers at Nenana rafting put-in] "Can I just leave my stuff here and pick it up when we come back around?" (Jordan S.)
5. "How old does a Caribou have to be before it becomes a Moose?" (S. Lee)
6. [in gift shop] "Do you take American money?" (Arabeau)
7. [in the street, upon viewing an obviously Hispanic lady with her infant in one of those backpack baby carriers] "Oh look - an Eskimo squaw with her little papoose!" (Arabeau)
8. [asked in July]" What time do the Northern Lights come on? (G. Jones)
9. Of course there is the travel agent in Florida who told my mother not to forget her passport when visiting Alaska. (G. Jones)
10. "Let's go to the post office and get some Alaskan stamps." (JP Somer)
11. "Alaska? Is that in the United States?" (JP Somer)
12. [ferry passengers, several times!] "Which side of the boat do the whales come up on?" (Colleen Easley)
13. A Juneau cabbie tells me a woman passenger asked him if they turn the waterfall off at night. (Colleen Easley)
14. "Do Alaskans REALLY live in Igloos?" (Glacier Gruff)
15. [at a hatchery tour] "What time does the salmon run start?" (Dennis Harris)
16. [on float plane landing approach] "But where's the airport?" (Dennis Harris)
17. [on boat tour to seabird rookeries]"What's that white stuff all over the rocks?"(Jack_Callahan)
18. "Why is the glacier so dirty?" (Joe Sonneman)
19. [at Denali National Park]"Where do they take the animals when the Park closes for winter?"(Bud Kuenzli)
20. "What flowers bloom here in the winter?"(Art Greenwalt)
21. "If it's dark all the time in the winter how do the kids find their way to school and back?"(Art Greenwalt)
22. "Are there still mammoths around?"(Art Greenwalt)
23. "Who mows the tundra at McKinley?"(Art Greenwalt)
24. "How much does the ice and snow on Denali weigh?" (Art Greenwalt)
25. "What do you mean, you fight forest fires? It's all snow and glaciers!"(R. Lee)
26. "Where are all the penguins?"(Joe Sonneman)
27. [in Barrow]"Why are there so many Orientals here?" (J. Lindell)
28. In Fairbanks, I heard about someone who actually thought they were someplace southeast of California, because that's where their Rand McNally atlas showed Alaska on the United States map.(J. Lindell)
29. A friend who lived in Alaska once told me of a tourist who met a black tour guide in Anchorage, and had to have her picture taken with him, because she thought he was a "Black Eskimo".(J. Lindell)
30. [At the salmon hatchery] "Why do they have to kill the fish? Can't they just let them go back to sea and live?" (Richard Cook)
31. [On the Russian River, 60 miles from tidewater] "Oh yeah. I read about this place! This is where the salmon come upstream every hour with the tide, isn't it?" (McGee)
32. [On a tour of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline] Don't those barrels make a lot of noise going through the pipe? (Gerry Liebling )
33. [While standing on the coastal trail off Cook Inlet during low tide] "This mud doesn't look that dangerous." (my 7yr. old whispered to me, Is that guy nuts?) (Susan Christensen)
34. [At Portage Glacier Lake] "How do you suppose they get all that ice in there?" (Judy Colwell)
35. [Reply from a New York supplier who I queried on U/Alaska letterhead] "Sorry. We cannot sell to Alaska. We do not have an export division." (Ed Gauss)
36. A few years ago, a woman was coming to Anchorage to present a Computer Seminar in late April. She telephoned the office where I worked, and asked me, "Will I have to take a dogsled from the airport? Where can I stay, are there hotels up there?" After I reassured her that there are many hotels, and she should take a cab from the airport, she asked the dumbest question of all, "Is there electricity in Alaska?" (elf)
37. [Exchange overheard between 2 tourists on a tour bus] "Is that a bear?" "No, that's a rock." "No, it must be a bear. Its too big to be a rock." (Glenn D. Wolf)
38. Tourist asked an Indian tour guide "How long have you been an Indian?" (Robinson)
39. [An email exchange with someone who can't read maps]

     In article nnnn Hulga wrote:
     : >Hey I'm riding my bike from Florida to Alaska in 
     : >March 97. I'll be going to Barrow.  
     I replied:
     : well, you might be able to fly  there, but you won't 
     : be able to bike there.  believe me.  there is no 
     : road there, and no bicycle can make it through 
     : the north slope tundra terrain.  you might be able 
     : to make it hiking if you had a lot of time, a total 
     : body mosquito suit, and food drops along the way.
     From: Hulga
     are you kidding about there not being a road?