This is not a fairy tale. I was there when it happened, so I guess I ought to know. On the seventh day of the seventh month in the year nineteen hundred seventy-seven, the five Pecks and Penny the poodle completed the 4,435 miles (1,300 miles on gravel) from Montgomery, Alabama to Anchorage, Alaska in our 1977 Suburban. (BTW: My son and I had a dream fishing adventure on the way to Anchorage. Most…
