Tom and Jen bought a truck camper.
Day 59: Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge Sunny and chilly. There were three beavers that kept some people in the campground awake last night. The beavers were chewing down trees and hauling them to the lake. One tree hit a camper as it was being felled. I didn’t get a picture until the campers in this... Continue Reading →
Day 58: Nabesna Road, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Mostly cloudy and chilly. The Nabesna Road has been anticlimactic. The Nabesna Road of Wrangell-St. Elias is a good representative of Alaska: inaccessible wilderness. I get that we are preserving our wilderness, and the way to do that is to keep people away. Then don’t give us... Continue Reading →
Day 57: Liberty Falls, Edgerton Highway, AK Mostly cloudy and cool. Leaving the McCarthy Road and Chitina areas, we proceeded north toward the Nabesna Road entrance into Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. We stopped at Copper Center to visit Kate at the Bee Happy Coffee Co. We met her Monday, when we about-faced from WSE and... Continue Reading →
Day 56: McCarthy Road We drove back down McCarthy Road. Tom stopped at a lake to fish, but only having a fly rod, he was unable to catch the fish at the lake. We tried another lake, but the walk to the lake became impassable due to the thick brush. With a tip from the... Continue Reading →
Day 55: Kuskulana River, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park So here we are in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. This only became a park in 1980, and it is mixed in with private land and national wildlife preserve land, and some state land. The only way to get into the interior of the park is via... Continue Reading →
Day 54: Valdez, AK Sunny and cool, with very calm waters. We overnighted along Dayville Rd., down from the hatchery. Tom got up early to fish. He had no luck today, so we prepared to go to Wrangell-St. Elias. We had lunch at the food truck “Nat Shack” in Valdez. Great halibut taco. It reminded... Continue Reading →
Day 53: Sunny and cool. On our way to the harbor for showers we stopped at a small business advertising smoked salmon and PWS* shrimp. We picked up some smoked pink** and chum salmon and made a delightful omelette with salmon, onion, green and orange peppers, capers and havarti cheese. Tom considered buying another fishing... Continue Reading →
Day 52: Old Valdez, AK Cloudy and cool. We parked at the site of the library in Old Valdez - where the city was when the earthquake of 1964 moved some buildings 30 feet and the city sank some nine feet. In the museum in Valdez we saw all about the earthquake and how the... Continue Reading →
Day 51: Buffalo Lake Access Point, Mendeltna, AK Sunny and chilly. We found out that the Stewart Highway was closed because of the fires hours after we passed through. We may have been stuck on the highway for who knows how long. The news story showed a photo of RVs camped on the road, with... Continue Reading →
Day 50: Museum of Alaska Transportation, Wasilla, AK We spent the night at the parking lot of this museum through Harvest Hosts. They didn’t open until 10, so we didn’t get to visit the museum. I talked Tom into driving 90 miles out of our way to the south viewpoint of Denali, because it was... Continue Reading →
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