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Alaska is the perfect place to go if you want to get away from the rest of the world.

As America's least densely populated state, you have plenty of breathing room from any kind of

authority or prying eyes that may want to know what you're up to. For this reason, my home

state is very attractive to all sorts of weird and unsavory groups.

I have stumbled across Scientology centers at the end of a dirt back road with nothing else

for miles around, heard stories from doomsday preppers who claim to have bunkers made out of

shipping containers in the sides of mountains, and met people who have come out of religious

cults in the interior that wanted to keep their followers away from any contact with the outside

world. All of this and more you can find in Alaska. I was born and raised in Anchorage, the only

big city in the state. Growing up, we had about 250,000 people in a city. It takes about

30 minutes tops to drive across, so that gives you an idea for what we up north consider a big

city. The only other real city in the state is Fairbanks. These two cities are connected by

360 miles of a two-lane highway. It's a seven-hour

drive one way to get between them through one of the most beautiful landscapes on the planet.

Mountains rise up on either side of you between Anchorage and Denali National Park before

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