we don't often drive at night, but it was easier and cheaper to take Toad down to Valdez to do the glacier tour, and by the time we got off the boat and grabbed some supper it was getting on for dusk with 130 miles back to camp. Being paranoid I feared the worst so set the cruise control for about 50 to stop my speed creeping up and started off. And lo and behold about an hour up the road a moose came out of the woods on the right and diagonally across the road at a canter. If I'd been on dipped headlights with oncoming traffic I would not have seen it in time, and if I had been doing the speed limit of 65 I expect we would have hit it. Maria didn't even spot it until I hit the brakes - as it was we stopped in time and put the hazards on for the cars behind us until it moved off the verge. Even if I had hit it, It would never have fit in the freezer....
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