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HOMER BEACON AT THE END OF THE ROAD, ALASKA TOWN HAS A SENSE OF FLAIR.(Travel)

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From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date: 20070909
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Byline: STORY AND PHOTOS BY ERIC NOLAND

Travel Editor

HOMER, Alaska -- The standard explanation for California's offbeat nature is that all the free spirits drifted west until they could go no farther. Well, much the same rationale could apply to the Alaska town of Homer, only here the syndrome concentrated in a single community.

This is the western extremity of the paved roadway system in the continental United States -- way out here in the shadow of longitude 155 degrees west. Homer lies literally at the end of the road, where the Sterling Highway peters out at the ...

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