Ghost Train

You never know what you’ll find in Alaska! Found this at a coffee shop along the road into Soldotna. We drove the Sterling Highway today to Kenai to stay in an RV Park near there. After 5 days without hook ups, we really needed a full service park. Tomorrow we’ll drive the car along the […]

Another glacier!

7/32/18 Today we went to the Kenai Fjords National Park and hiked 2 miles to see the Exit Glacier. Tomorrow we will leave Seward and head to Kenai on the Cook Inlet, but we will miss the fantastic view of Resurrection Bay we’ve had for the last 3 days.

Kenai Fjords

Today we went on a boat tour of the Kenai Fjords. Fantastic views of glaciers and wildlife that we never would have seen like this any other way. Thank you to Megan, Kevin’s girlfriend, for suggesting it. Bear Glacier Common murres Sea lions Glacier ice Aialik Glacier We also saw puffins, bald eagles, cormorants, and […]

Seward, AK

7/29/18 Drove from Anchorage to Seward today along the Seward Highway, a national Forest Scenic Byway. The scenery was beautiful, but the traffic and wind made us hesitate to pull off for photos, so there is only one. We camped in Seward at one of the city campgrounds right on the bay. Watched the boats […]

Hatcher Pass

We drove the Jeep on the Hatcher Pass Road to see the old Independence Mine. Very narrow road and part of it was hard packed gravel, but the views from there are spectacular and well worth the drive. Then we packed up the RV and drove about an hour to Anchorage to stay for the […]

Ice Age Survivors

We continued on the Glenn Highway into Palmer today and saw 2 survivors from the ice age – the Matanuska Glacier and musk oxen (well, they looked like it anyway!) Arrived in Palmer in time for a farmer’s market and also found 2 of our favorite things – a train engine and a local brewery. […]

Frost heaves, a glacier, and RadioShack!

Leaving the Alaskan Highway today at Tok, we took the Tok Cutoff to the Glenn Highway. More rough road – frost heaves made for a very bumpy ride. But it was worth it because at The Hub of Alaska is the last Radio Shack! Alas, we had to say goodbye and continue on our journey. […]

Alaska!

Started off the morning still in the Yukon Territory, Canada. Stopped in at Pine Valley Bakery and Creperie for (you guessed it) – cinnamon rolls! I think this must be an Alaska Highway tradition. We also had a yummy maple crepe. We crossed the boarder into Alaska at 12:30 with no problems. WE MADE IT! […]

Another chip in the windshield

Back on the road again but much rougher today. Beautiful, unexpected scenery and a huge crack in the windshield – oh well, it’s only crack #4! Lake Kluane is the largest lake in the Yukon, and we were surprised by the salt flats and winds off in the distance. Stopped for the night in Destruction […]

Whitehorse and vicinity

After 4 days on the road, we decided to stay put for a day and explore the area by car and bike. We drove to the small town of Carcross to see the little locomotive Duchess, which the Disneyland mine train and Thunder Mountain train used as a model. Then we drove the car to […]