Valdez

We left Palmer, Mountain View CG, and took the Glenn Highway to Glenn. Twists and turns, some construction and rolling frost heaves, rain and drizzle. Nothing to really say much about.

On Monday we went to Copper River to pick up our mail and make a stop to the Wrangell-St Elias NP visitors center.  This is a very nice  VC with plenty of space for RV parking.  As it has been for several days it is rainy and cloudy so no views.

The following day we pulled pack into the VC to take a picture or two,

We continued on to Valdez and ...

We arrived at Eagles Rest and got all set  up and made reservations for a Glacier Tour for the next day. I had taken a look at the Alaska Tour Saver and forgot that was one that we could have used a bogo but since this was the only we would have used there would not have much been a savings.





The tour was well done and included a light lunch. The weather was overcast but that brought out the blue in the glaciers. We saw Sea Otters doing what they should outter, Sea Lions in their man caves and a reported of a blow of a Hump Whale. The narration of the cruise was very informative and since this is a small ship you could talk with the captain while on the bridge.

More pictures will be on our online album.

Time to catch up

For reasons that some know I am just having some difficult doing the blog thing. That said I am now doing much better even though I haven't done any posting for a while.

Since the last entry we have followed the Al Can thru Whitehorse where we spent a few days and view local attractions where we camped at Hi Country RV Park.  We continued onward to Cottonwood RV about 16 mi below Destruction Bay. This is a nice CG but a bit pricey. We stayed two nights since we planned to kayak the second day. The weather has other ideas.

Now we are on the bad section of Perma Frost. Just slow down and we will be find. Along with that there is a lot of dirt road. No that is not so bad by its self but it was rain and wash board. Not clean. We next camped at Beaver Creek CG.

On to Tok where we washed the coach.  We took a jeep ride to Chicken and several miles past toward  the junction with Eagle.Yeah we could have taken the coach to TOE, Tow of  the World, but what's the point?

We stopped near Big Delta where we found to have time to kayak. A nice relaxing time with Wally and Ann.

Now River View CG near North Pole where the group, Joan, Wally & Ann, Terry & Muriel met up. Our objective to attend the Midnight Sun Baseball game. Of course it had been raining most of the bay but it cleared for the evening.  By 0030 the score was 8 to 0 and since it was cool, overcast we decide to call it a night. About a couple of innings the game was postponed. They finished the next night. We took the time to tour the town as well as visited North Pole.

Next stop is Denali where we spent a night at the Riely CG and then spent 3 nights in Teklanika CG 29 miles deep into the park. This was very neat experience and we saw quite a lot of wildlife.

On to Anchorage where we spent a night at Ship Creek  before we drove to Kenai where we stayed at Beluga Lookout before we went to Homer. We didn't camp on the spit but took in the sights. Since it was the 4th of July weekend we went back to Beluga before heading to Seward. There we took a Glacier tour boat ride, Sea Life Center and a hike to Exit Glacier.  This was the end of our tour with Wally and Ann since they had to make their way to the lower 48 and Vermont.

Following there we spent a couple of nights at Williwaw National Forest CG near along the Portage road to Whittier.

Next was Houston and the Good Sam Alaska State Rally.  Terry and Muriel met us there and there was 2 rigs from AR.  We had a good time with the folks that there were and hear a lot of stories from the real Alaskan's.

Since we had bypassed Talkeetna we thought we should spend a couple of nights there. We didn't make a flight seeing ride and the weather that wasn't that good. No reason to go to Talkeetna other than a flight or climbing Denali. Other than that, tourist town.

That finds in Palmer AK in the rain for the next few days.

Again pictures are here.