Saturday, July 16, 2022 was a day we knew was coming, but did not look forward to; our last day in Alaska. Both of us have wanted to visit the 49th state and three years ago we planned a cruise to Alaska only to have to cancel it due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost two […]
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Friday, July 15, 2022 we arose early, tore down our set-up and drove 253 miles from beautiful Valdez, Alaska to…well whatever Tok (pronounced “Toke”), Alaska might be described as. Most notably, Tok is the first larger town you come to after crossing the border into Alaska and the last one as you leave Alaska to
Thursday, July 14 we did some laundry in town and then took a drive down the road from the park where we were staying. We could see a glacier from the turnoff into our campground, so Cindy wanted to drive down the road and see how close we could get to it. It turned out
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022 was mostly a down day for us. We made a trial run into Valdez to see where the cruise would leave from and where we could park. We then just drove around the small coastal town to see what it looked like. Oh, and we found a laundromat so we could
Monday, July 11, 2022, we left Palmer, Alaska to drive 257 miles over to Valdez, Alaska. This drive was supposed to take about 4 1/2 hours but between the drive through the mountains being a “slow go”, the weather (cold, rainy and foggy in many places) and the construction along the way it ended up
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Friday, July 8, 2022 we took Bella for a walk on part of the Kenai Lake lakeshore and she was just giddy with joy, jumping over fallen logs and racing around as far as her leash would allow. We thought we would go back to Seward and walk along the shore of the bay and
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On Thursday, July 7, 2022 Cindy and I drove down to the Kenai Fjords National Park to go on a 10am ranger-led 3-mile round trip hike to the Exit Glacier. The glacier is derived from the Harding Icefield in the Kenai Mountains of Alaska. Back in the spring of 1968 a mountaineering party was the
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Wednesday, July 6, 2022 we left Palmer, Alaska around 10:30am for a 3 hour/145 mile trip to our next stop; the Trail River Campground (part of the Chugach National Park) in Moose Pass, Alaska . This is a very scenic drive as a great deal of it takes place around the Turnagain Arm, a waterway
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Our 5 nights at Palmer were pretty boring, which was fine after the go-go-go of our week at Denali National Park. Saturday was my birthday and was what I wanted; a day of quiet and rest. I was happy to get phone calls from the kids and grandkids, and text messages from friends and those
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After our drive into Denali National Park on Friday morning, July 1, 2022, we returned to our campsite at Riley Creek Campground and finished packing up and tearing down to leave for our 212 mile/4 hour drive to Palmer, Alaska. This would have been the day we drove to Anchorage for a 5 night stay,
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