Caribou Hotel 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 ...

There's a lot of road work in our neighborhood and someone cut through the electric and water lines on Friday. We waited patiently but could not connect to the internet till very late. Things seem some better today and I'll try to fill you in on what we've been up to before the lights go out.
Visited Exit Glacier yesterday. What a beautiful trip up the mountain and along Resurrection River. The trail from the ...

The morning tour to the ice museum began at 9. It's so cold inside! 20 F, so even with glove, scarf, everything, twenty minutes' still too long. But it's extraordinary. It's dark inside to prevent the ice from melting. So the pictures are not clear.

AFTER the arctic ocean mission, the trip resembled more ...

What a day! Sunny and warm, and light at 4:00am.

I drove about two hours to meet a shuttle van at the little Chitina airport. Two young couples from Germany also met the van. Then on to Kennicott. The road is about 60 miles long, mostly dirt and gravel. And BUMPY!! Jolt and lurch, dodge potholes, slow down, speed up. The road is access to one part of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. There's a big sign when ...

... we have all had enough of the narrow, winding mountain roads. There is construction on the road but we did not get held up too much. We had 2 moose cross the road in front of us. Then we ran into frost heaves and damaged roads. Soooooooooooooo our 147 miles took us about 4 hrs driving time. Tomorrow we head to Valdez and will stay there until at least Monday. More later.

... edge of the Wrangall-St. Elias National Park. There is very little there, but apparently a nice hotel since a tour bus was parked in front. Information from the campground indicated that we might find eagles along the Copper River where the Alaskans fish for salmon. We saw a lot of fish wheels working, but no eagles. It was an interesting sight to see the string of fish wheels lined up along the ...

Glenn Highway - Anchorage to Glennallen ----------------------------------- Since posting my last blog nine days ago, from Homer (Sept. 16), I have traveled thousands of kilometers on some of North America's most beautiful roads. The weather has more or less co-operated which means that my days have been spent traveling or sightseeing. Usually, I have traveled late into the night to get to my next destination. As I have previously mentioned, I enjoy ...

... far. We've put a lot of hours of walking in...my legs are hard as a rock. Tomorrow morning I have to run back to the post office and to the coffee shop, and I have to go to the cruise place to see if I can reserve a spot on Saturday or Monday for the wildlife-viewing cruise through the harbor. I can't wait for that. I might also try my hand at fishing one of these days - but probably not! I'll just get my fish the old-fashioned way - from the supermarket back home!!! 'Night, y'all!!!

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 Today was a short travel day, only 120 miles southwest of Fairbanks to Denali National Park. The road was good, except for about 10 miles that was under construction. It is beautiful up here, in many ways like the Colorado Rocky Mountains. We are parked in a RV Park right on the Tanana River - the same river we boated on yesterday, but 100 plus miles upstream. The RV Park is not much but the view in all directions is quite pretty. Shortly after we arrived we ...