ANCHORAGE

Located in South Central Alaska, Achorage is the largest city in the State. About 300'000 people are living here, what is about half of the whole Alaskan population. The city is primarily big and not very pretty, so don't spend a lot of time to find a nice place where you could enjoy your slice of Pizza - we ended up eating it in the car.
The Botanical Garden and the Anchorage Museum of History & Art though are worth a visit, you'll get plenty of information.
And last but not least - don't go to the Waterpark. Even thgough it was listed in the Children Section in the Lonley Planet, we checked it out. It also wouldn't have been that bad IF some things there would have been working. So we only got to enjoy one water slide out of four, a wave pool without waves and a hot tub with cold water. But at least we got a hot shower at the end, a pure pleasure after some days without running water ;-)