Pippin Lake Bed and Breakfast Copper Center

... The most interesting were the moulins (French for mill), where water is forming a stream and carving a canyon in the ice. Root Glacier has many moulins, some of which are more like corkscrews that go completely through the glacier. We sat on backpacking pads to eat our lunch, although everything gets wet, because the ice melts from body heat. We were already soaked, however, from the nearly continuous ...

... by highway in the entire state. Nearby at Glacier Park they offer glacier trekking and ice climbing. <br><br>Glennallen is a major highway crossroads. The Glenn Highway continues as the Tok Cutoff, northeast to Tok. The Ric******* Highway goes south to Valdez (southern terminus of the pipeline), and north to Delta Junction and Fairbanks. We turned south towards Valdez, but traveled just 15 miles to Copper Center. This is the headquarters ...

... and attached it under the hood. So far, we&#8217;ve not seen further evidence of Mr. Squirrel. By the way, Nitchie is NOT a squirrel hunting dog.<br><br>We planned to leave tomorrow for Tok, but Wendell just came in and said maybe we should spend another day. Fine with me! I love it here. Our pull-through is only a few feet from the creek so we get to enjoy the sound of the babbling brook. If you are looking for a place to camp where you can truly enjoy a ...

... a normal one. We visited the North Pole shop, bought souvenirs, took pictures, just what normal tourists would do. We decided to stay at copper center lodge, the only lodging place in town, well, not actually a town, only a few houses, no more than twenty in sight. The room is small since the lodge is old. <br>

... lunch by the water and headed back towards Anchorage/Palmer. The ride to Anchorage was quick until we got in to Anchorage - traffic. The traffic in Anchorage is bad. It was stop and go for almost an hour. When we finally emerged I cranked on the throttle and headed to Palmer ultimately for no reason. Palmer ain't much. We didn't even stop. We pressed on after turning on to AK 1 the Glenn Hwy. It felt good to hit ...

... hintere Tuere benutzen und Papiere bereitmachen" Verstanden, wird sofort gemacht. Dann Visa Zettel ausfuellen, sogar in Deutsch, 6 Dollar he he he!! Fuer die Datenbank noch beide Zeigefinger scannen und ein Foto fuers Album, das wars, noch ein wenig Small Talk ueber Dieses und Jenes und ich bin in den Staaten, ein hart erkaempfter Grenzuebergang, aber wenn schon das erste Mal in Amerika, dann wenigstens an einem ...

... is closed and thats it your left on your own. So after touring around for a bit I finally found the right Highway just before almost ending up on the Military Base. I decided to stop for coffee and some breakfast in Sutton just over an hour from Anchorage, I ate a Breakfast Sandwich with a reindeer sausage, it tasted really good altough Im embarrased to say I ate ...

... I saw parts of the Matanuska River which I would have otherwise missed. It also led to a close encounter with the river bed. Along the Old Glenn Highway at one point, I was able to drive out onto the river bed. As I was out there, a Jeep came roaring towards me and for a moment I did not know whether this would be a "Deliverance" moment, as the area was quite isolated, or just someone out to have fun. Luckily it turned out to be the latter. Once ...

... make for an interesting place to visit. Rife with words such as Tax-Free, Outpost, Gift Shop, Tax Free, Exotic Junk, Alaskan Gold, Trading Post it certainly conveys an image of an outpost of Alaska. The General Store has an eye-catching sign - "A Town of a Hundred Happy Souls and a few old s----heads" --that sort of sums up Hyder. The St. Paul's Orthodox Church is a reminder that until Seward's Folly, Alaska was part of Russia. William Seward, secretary ...

Palmer is also where the main highway eastward veers off, so I take that to Glenallen, before heading north again to Delta Junction. The next day is one long drive through the vastness and openness of Alaska. There's really nothing quite like it, and the idea that it&#8217;s all tundra and nothingness could not be farther from the truth. That part of Alaska ...