Day 39: Ninilchik, AK Sunny, pleasant and warm. The fireweed is much taller than me. A very busy day. We traveled 90 feet today, as we moved from a so-so campsite to a better one in the Ninilchik View Campground. We walked to the coffee shop, then the grocery market, then to the local pizza... Continue Reading →

Day 38: Kasilof, AKSunny, warm and pleasant. I am not a geologist, but I found a soapstone! Looks just like a bar of soap, doesn't it? I am sitting here at the end of the day, after a couple glasses of 2011 Della Valpolicella wine, after enjoying a meal of chicken with Parmesan, tomato and... Continue Reading →

Day 37: Captain Cook State Recreation Area, AKSunny and warm. First thing in the morning (11:00) we went to Stormy Lake for Tom to do some fishing. I baked cookies and worked on a little house project while he was fishing. I am putting a fabric protector on the wall behind the stove to cover... Continue Reading →

Day 36: Hope, AKSunny and warm. We haven’t seen rain in a week and hardly any mosquitoes. Hope We had to check out Hope because it was on the map but there was nothing about it in the 70-page Kenai Adventures booklet. Hope is bigger than Chicken. They have internet, four cafes, an RV Park... Continue Reading →

Day 35: Anchorage, AKSunny and warm First thing in the morning we headed to the Botanical Gardens to look around some more. I would fit in living in Alaska. CHECK OUT THIS AWESOME VAN for sale we saw in the Sportsman’s Warehouse. 1990, 65000 miles for $7500. We could take this on any road Alaska... Continue Reading →

Day 33: Seward, AKCloudy and cool. We bit the bullet and forked over $400 to go on a Kenai Fjords National Park tour by boat, with salmon and prime rib dinner. We were so lucky today, even the boat workers told us that. We saw four types of whales: fin whales, humpback whales, resident (fish... Continue Reading →

Day 32: Seward, AK Cloudy, windy and cold. We went to the Seward library and worked on the website and travel plans. We have been planning on taking the Alaska Marine Highway to Bellingham, Washington (Seattle) in late August, and seeing some of Alaska’s towns during ferry stops. The ferry system has been shut down... Continue Reading →

Day 31: Whittier, AK Sunny, pleasant and warm. Whittier is a large storage lot with a few tourist holes. I really liked the informality. We checked out a few places in the Chugach National Forest and went to Seward. Here in the Kenai Fjords National Park we did a hike to Exit Glacier. I was... Continue Reading →

Day 30: Whittier, AK Sunny, windy and cold. First thing in the morning we took the Portage Pass trail hike. The hike began with finding an abundance of salmonberries. It was pretty steep and a mile to the top of the pass. We stopped there and chatted with a woman from Hawaii whose family went... Continue Reading →