Aspen Meadows Of Mccarthy B&B Glennallen
McCarthy #42 Glennallen, Alaska, 99588, United States
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We are now officially headed home.
... and so were looking down on it - such a different perspective. Oh, if you ask Colleen about the drive, she may mention that I forgot to tell her about all the 10,000 foot vertical drop-offs at the edge of the road - and most of you know how she loves drop-offs..... Once we got to our campsite outside of the small town of Glennallen, I fixed the leak as best I could. We are seeing alot of moose "nuggets" so maybe we'll see a moose in our campground.....hope remains ...
Day 20
... even if it was a small black bear! She is getting pretty frail.
She couldn't hear us and she kept trotting farther and farther ahead! I started yelling and so did Warren. She kept going. Finally she stopped and looked around and saw us and came back. Phew!!
It wasn’t much of a wild life day. I saw a gray jay, but we cut our bird watching walk short because of the ravenous mosquitoes!
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Gateway to the Wrangells National Park
... nights sleep, we got up at 8.30am, used the natural amenities and drove down to the Wrangells National Park headquarters and visitor centre. Very helpful and friendly people, and they even had some hot water for our instant porridge oats and a cup of tea for breakfast. After breakfast we walked the half a mile loop around the visitor centre and then drove into the park to do one of the walks. On the way we spotted some buffalo grazing in a field which happily posed ...
Day at the Alaska State Fair
... yellow and really contrast with the evergreens.
We met our niece Jennifer, Reese & Ryan (3 year old twins) at the shopping center we planned to leave the camper but there really wasn't space there so we found a nearby church parking lot. We rode together over to the fair, arriving there just at 10:00 when the gates opened. The sun was out and it turned out to be a beautiful day with a high in the mid 60's.
When we got there the crowd was sparse ...
Birds and Bones and....
... and one of the guys at the campground took him in and made sure he got to a wildlife rescue place in Valdez. It was so cute and fluffy. I hate to see the mama when the baby is as huge as he was.
This chipmunk is so used to getting fed by the girls, he comes over and stares at them like "Where is my lunch?"
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