Aspen Meadows Of Mccarthy B&B Glennallen

... of the kids, but just being around a bunch of military folks…both younger and older. Hearing reveille at 7 AM and the "Star Spangled Banner" played at 5 PM each day couldn’t help but make me feel so proud of our wonderful military. It wasn’t until a few days ago that I was in the car at 5 PM and witnessed something I’ve never seen before…..all the cars pulled to the side of the road and waited until the national anthem was played ...

Yesterday we went into Wrangell National Park. Sixty-three miles of dirt road each way. And it wasn't worth the effort. Took some photos which are included. <br><br>At the end of the day we lucked out on a campground. It was the only place that had WiFi. I think it is the most pleasant of the trip.<br><br>Since Wrangell is such a bust we are going to TOK and then Destruction Bay in easy stages to Haines to catch the ferry.

... fundraising. <br>On our way into our park, we crossed the Salmon Creek and Woody spotted the Bald Eagle with a huge salmon. Two large black birds (probably ravens) were pestering him. He landed in a tree across the river and we quickly stopped to take some pictures. Some of the shots are pretty good.<br>We're off in the morning to head back to Anchorage to catch the Glenn Highway to Valdez. <br>I don't know how ...

... for a break at the Seward/Homer intersection on the Seward Hwy and then headed to Portage Glacier. We arrived at the Glacier Cruise dock just in time to jump on the tour boat. The tour boat took us up Portage Lake around the 'corner' to the glacier. The Portage Glacier has receded back to where it is not visible from the visitor center or road. Apparently this is normal and the glacier's recession is actually ...

... some reason we can't get our portable grill to work which came with the RV rental. We are forced to cook in the RV. Instead of Hamburgers, Marty made his awesome meatballs and sauce with garlic bread. Today we are taking a hike to a Mud Spring in the Tolsona Creek valley. Tempature is 49F but going up to 66F.

Von Dawson ueber den Top of the World Highway, wunderschoene Gegend, man darf ruhig sagen, diese 300 km sind huegelig gelinde ausgedrueckt. Nach Dawson gehts 20 km den Berg hoch und dann Huegel, Huegel, Huegel. Aber es lohnt sich allemal! Ein Traum diese Strasse. Keine Strasse, wohl eher Kult. Auf der kanadischen Seite sollte ja gemaess Karte alles geteert sein. War vielleicht mal so, zwei drittel sind jedenfalls ...

... Sept. 18, 2007 Distance driven - 300 km My next destination was Wrangell - St. Elias National Park located 500 km to the east of Anchorage. After my return to Anchorage from Homer on Sunday evening, I spent Monday visiting the airport facilities and blogging. Due to rainy weather on Tuesday, I continued blogging at the University of Alaska - Anchorage. I did not leave the "office", for the last time, till about 17:00. My next destination was Wrangell ...

... the high Andes near Mendoza, Argentina, this February, to cross over into Chile; or going to Spain (Catalonia) while visiting Llívia ,a small exclave town surrounded by French territory. Now it is not that Hyder, Alaska is surrounded by foreign territory, as it is located in the southern part of the Alaska panhandle that reaches deeply along the north-western Pacific. It is however totally isolated from the rest of Alaska and has the distinction of being ...

... than that around Fairbanks, which is fairly flat and featureless. It&#8217;s almost literally the polar opposite of Arizona, with the outback loop back up to Fairbanks passing through Paxson instead of Arizona&#8217;s Payson on the way to Flagstaff. I spend the night in Delta junction, which I guess would correspond to Winslow in the Arizona analogy.

... us. It was quite interesting to watch and remarkable that they were able to swim in the very cold water and the strong current. At 5pm we boarded a bus and were taken to a dinner theatre in a log building a few miles from here where we had a good dinner and a very enjoyable presentation with lots of very light humor and audience participation. The dinner was served family style and the actors and actresses served the food and entertained at the same time. A good time was had by all ...