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Palmer Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Palmer, United States
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Communication with the M/V Explorer
Here are some links to keep you informed and help us communicate while I'm away: For my itinerary go here: http://www.semesteratsea.com/voyages/spring2008/sp2008_itine rary.html To check the position of the M/V Explorer go here: ...
Palmer, Alaska, United States
... with vanilla ice cream for dessert. After lunch, Art and I walked up the street to the "Church of a Thousand Trees," a United Protestant Church that was dedicated in 1937, the year Art was born. Miraculously, the church is still standing even ...
Homestead RV Park
Heading out of the Kenai Peninsula to Palmer Ak which was a town that our government started back in the depression to help out people from Minnesota and Wisconsin. Any peoples that wanted to move were giving a Farming homestead. Also the government had ...
Palmer, Alaska, United States
... were constructed. Among the buildings constructed at this time, the Central School, Alaska Railroad Depot, and the Lutheran and United Protestant churches still stand. The first of the Minnesota contingent arrived at Palmer on May 10, 1935. Things did ...
Farm Country
You'll find a Fred Meyer and Safeway grocery stores to stock up on anything good at Walmart prices. This where you begin to see that Alaska is overstocked with cops and that is the only attraction here ...
We made it!
Here we are in Alaska! After our flight into Anchorage, we headed over to Great Alaskan Holiday for orientation on our 28' Winnebago. Good thing Marty will be doing all the driving, because that thing is way too big for me to driver. We ...
Palmer, Alaska, United States
... did, no charge. Then, since it was nearly noon, we started looking for some place to have lunch. In downtown Palmer, they are dealing with road detours and closures due to a water main break. We had some difficulty navigating, but ...
Last night in Alaska
... main trail there. In the evening, I dropped my sister at the Anchorage airport, and then drove north along the Glenn Highway to Palmer. It is now almost 11pm and the sun is still shining. There are quite a few RVs here, but not many ...
Palmer - July 12-13
Hiked Thunderbird Falls trail to the viewing platform. The drive to the Eagle River Nature Center had great mountain views. The nature walk is great; lots of informative signs. The boardwalk allowed us to walk out into a small ...
Girdwood to Palmer
The drive along Turnagin Arm was so different this time. The tide changes here are about 12 feet. Since it was low tide, the view was mostly huge mud ...
Dogs, Dogs, and more Dogs at Finger Lake
Monday march 8, 2004 Our itinerary describes today as 'an opportunity of a lifetime', and it definitely was! We woke up to a gorgeous day with deep blue skies and a few clouds scattered around. Charity, Nigel, Paul, and I were the only ones out of the ...
All together again!
... open spaces and lack of traffic Anchorage was a bit of a culture shock! We spent our second day in and around the Palmer area. The weather actually cooperated and I think a few of us got a bit of a sunburn at the 7pm baseball game we ...
Last Adventure awaits....
... , and make it to Palmer in time to find some dinner. Man! We are all craving some good ole' Mexican food..... Our little apartment in Palmer is only a mile or so away from the Alaska State Fair grounds. We aren't there long enough to catch the fair but we ...
Holding on by a rope!
Ice Climbing proved to be a challenge. At first, we weren't sure we would tackle it with grace but we were sure going to give it our all! We arrive at the site and are informed that we should have brought lunch; so we buy a couple of granola bars to ...
Rudolph, Blitzen, Dancer and Prancer
... ice climbing but are anxious to get out of the house and find a kissing moose! We head out to the Reindeer farm in Palmer. Near the base of a mountain lies a small family farm that raises reindeer (domesticated caribou) and elk. We were given a lesson ...
It rained...that stinks.
We went to the fair even though it rained like crazy. We (I) wanted to see some roller derby and experience the state's fair. We arrived and ate some fair food (delicious) and checked out some of the attractions...lots of ATV's, RV's, snow ...
Our 15th stop – Palmer, AK.
Population in Palmer is 5,475. It is the only community in Alaska developed from an agricultural economy. This is the result of one of the most unusual experiments in American history – the Matanuska Valley Colony. In 1935 during the Great ...
Three weeks of travel
We left Talkeetna after having rhubard/apple sourdough pancakes at the Roadhouse. Yummy! We found a nice campground at Palmer and will be doing day trips to Wasilla, Palmer and Mat Su Valley the next few days. I will show you a couple of pictures of ...
Hatcher Pass Here We Come
... Pass fills the day. Wordy Version: Our second day with the rental car was planned as a free-for-all excursion around the Wasilla-Palmer area. Last night, we heard about the drive to a place called Hatcher Pass so we Googled and read what we could to see ...
Musk Ox Farm
We took a nice little detour at a musk ox farm in the Matanuska Valley. What odd, enchanting animals--like something out of Narnia! ...
Palmer
Today we head for Palmer. A stop in Talkeetka would be good. They have a town art festival. The town is crowded with people waiting for the train as we al people just enjoying the day. We found a local outdoor restaurant to have lunch. A little low on ...
Finally Civilazation (Sort of)
Today we traveled to West Virginia and enjoyed alot of people. We have a great site right in front of the river and next to friendly people. We soon noticed we had no internet or phone but we had texting abilities. Back to our neighbors their names ...
Glaciers & Scenery
We drove straight through from Tok to Palmer today. We're pretty anxious to get to the Kenai so we only stopped for gas and to have lunch and snacks at a couple of the turnouts along the road. We saw lots of scenery on our drive including bald ...
Talked into an ATV tour
While we were relaxing the previous day, we spent some time looking at our options as to what we should do during our two days in Alaska. There is not a shortage of choices and we had purchased the Toursaver book that had many two for one coupons ...
Hatcher Pass is beautiful!
... I could. Evidently I said the wrong thing in dog because he gave us a dirty look and left. The main reason we have stopped in Palmer is to see our friends Mike and Amy O’Connor and their new baby Aspen. Dave wants to make buffalo chili for them, and ...
Tubing down a river
Today we got invited by Our neighbors (Dee and Angie) to go on a little boat ride to the dam, but this turned out to be a little more then a 20 minute ride. We got to go tubing and swim. While getting to know people who we just met!! In my first run Dee ...
Thurs & Friday
... is Alaska's only community that developed primarily from an agricultural economy. Your history lesson for the day. We found a United Methodist Church in Palmer we will attend this Sunday. On our way to the Old Independence Mine on Hatcher Pass Road we ...
Things you won't see at other state fairs
... . The monks established a mission in Alaska, which was made a diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church a few years after the United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867. While a lot of state and county fairs have giant pumpkins larger than ...
Arrival
... 7/28/2010 – Arrived in Anchorage a bit later than scheduled, a little after 7:00 PM, and picked up the rental car. Drove to Palmer to check in at the Valley Hotel. Got there about 9:00 PM but that was not a problem as far as daylight ...
Anchorage to Palmer
... . Anyway headed about 60 klms out of town and are now in a very very windy (van swaying around a bit) RV park at Palmer in the mountains , they said moose come into the site in a morning so I have been sitting on the van steps in the freezing ...
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