Tom and Jen bought a truck camper.
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 →
Day 49: Homer, AK Partly sunny and warm. We left Homer and again drove past North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point, past Ninilchik, where we remembered to pick up some smoked pork chops, past the road to Hope and Beluga Point, and on to Anchorage , with the intention of going to Wrangell-St Elias National... Continue Reading →
Day 48: Kodiak, AK Sunny and warm. Walked to the ferry, after breakfast at Monk’s Rock. Well we didn’t see the ferry. It was docked 1 1/2 miles away because this ferry, the Kennicott, is larger that the ferry we took to Kodiak and doesn’t fit at the terminal in town. We walked by several... Continue Reading →
Found a whale head that washed up on the beach. This was huge about 7’ long and 3’ wide. The smell was…yuck https://youtu.be/ZLA22SwJA_4
Day 47: Kodiak, AK Sunny and very warm. Today was our last day on Kodiak with a vehicle. So, we took advantage of it and got up before dawn to look for bears. It worked. Down at the Buskin River, we saw a bear in the river. A Kodiak bear. It was quite a distance... Continue Reading →
Sunny and warm. I forgot to mention we went to the aquarium on Near Island yesterday. Check out this video of a large crab at feeding time: We saw the resident Steller sea lions from Near Island, too. “Stuck” in Kodiak without a car, we thought we would check out a couple museums and the... Continue Reading →
Day 45: Kodiak, AK Sunny and warm. Today was the first day since June 30 that we woke up in a real bed and not in Arvi. Not a big deal. I will tell you about sleeping in Arvi another day. We explored the island of Kodiak some more. We went to Fort Abercrombie, which... Continue Reading →
Day 44: AMHS Ferry to Kodiak Kodiak Island reminds me of The Shire. So green. We want to see some Kodiak bears! But, we don’t want to see the bears. Well, we would like to see the bears from the safety of our vehicle. We checked out the Buskin River. Full of pinks,* but no... Continue Reading →
Rented a Ford Explorer Sport Trac to explore Kodiak Island There was no room on the ferry for our Roadtrek SS Agile so we walked on the ferry and rented transportation on Kodiak.
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