Caribou Hotel Glennallen

... and Jessica discovered it was very handy to have Dad’s truck available for her purchases. The nice thing here is that you never have to leave the base and can hit anywhere from 10 – 20 sales in a few hours. Jessica got a double stroller the first weekend, bar stools another time, a table & chair set for Riley last weekend, and tons of baby items at all of them. I also picked up a few small items but with our small space, I had to limit my ...

... br><br>Beautiful Long Lake nestled among the mountains. <br><br><br> <br><br><br>The many views of Matanuska Glacier were especially spectacular.<br><br><br> <br><br>The varied colors of Sheep Mountain were beautiful even though we didn't see any sheep.<br><br><br>The Chugach Mountain range is endless. Stopped ...

... Heading through Palmer........ the views are spectacular as we follow the Matanuska River, which is fed by the Matanuska Glacier and we cross a bridge over the Knik River, which is fed by the Knik Glacier to the east and splits into several branches as it approaches Knik Arm (a 3-mile-wide estuary that extends 40 miles southeast to Cook Inlet.) It's all breathtaking and my pictures don't do this area justice. We are ...

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

... 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 ...

... Mount Fairplay, na ja fair waren seine Huegel ja nicht gerade. Tok Regen, aber gutes Fruehstueck! Dann gings easy weiter. Eigentlich flach, aber Gegenwind. Egal einfach treten und nicht immer motzen! Nun bin ich in Glennallen und hab noch ca. 300 km bis Anchorage. Das sind 3 lockere Tage treten. Hab aber noch laaaange Ferien :-). Na, werde mal zwei, drei Gaenge zurueckschalten und die Sache etwas ruhiger angehen. Prost!!!

... it seemed that way when we were halfway up it). When we started our mountain climb it was sprinkling but then it started raining harder and by the time we got to the top it was steady rain and very windy. I was freezing, so I ended up going back to the car before we even found the geocache...but wouldn't you know it??? The car was locked! I was so wet that I could wring my socks out and now I'm completely drained. We did see some awesome scenery though, so it wasn't all bad. It's ...

... a stream or even better from a tourist boat which takes you quite close to this giant ice wall which is constantly breaking apart to the accompaniment of tremendous cracking sounds. The Salmon Glacier, on the other hand, is the only glacier I have viewed from a higher elevation than most of its visible parts. So in fact you are looking down upon the glacier from where you park your car. It is a most impressive sight made more profound by the fact that you ...

... 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.