Home After Five Months!

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9/9 – Home. Uneventful trip home with a few nights of camping on the way home. Our neighbor Paul Hanson has kept our place looking good, thank you Paul! I know it wasn’t easy.   That’s all folks. Quick summary … Continued

Alaska then home!

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8/30 – After Valdez we had to return to Glennallen on the same road coming in. We stayed the first night at Galkana, a place where we had stayed before on the Copper River. Then to Tok for another night. … Continued

Crooked Creek

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Dead and dying humpies (pink salmon). Right inside Valdez city limits. “Bears are everywhere” so say residents- we didn’t see any but you could tell they come here often to feed on easy pickins’. There was a comment from a … Continued

Glenallen to Valdez

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8/27 – We left Anchorage this morning and drove about 200 miles to Glennallen. This (pic) was about the only interesting part – a cow moose, and her two calves that had to be a couple years old. Very healthy … Continued

A Frequent Site

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Here are 4 Class C motorhomes in caravan, on the Kenai and in the smoke. The 4th is behind the 3rd as you can see only its roof AC. Normally these are foreign tourists and if more than three, it … Continued

Not Clouds

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8/17 – We are in Kenai (town) and will head for boondocking (no electric, water, sewer) for the next few days. The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge beckons. It is the premier wildlife viewing area in Alaska and we will head … Continued

Fish On!

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This morning, 8/15/19, we are leaving Deep Creek and going to the town of Kenai for a couple days, doing laundry, then on to Anchorage for a couple days. So, yesterday I went fishing and caught a large male Coho … Continued

Kenai Continues

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8/9/19 – Happy Birthday Shayley! So, we left Deep Creek this morning and headed south to “The end of the Road” for those who can remember Tom Bodett’s nationwide radio program from Homer – now he’s famous for Motel 6 … Continued

Deep Creek

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8/4 – Could we have picked a worse time to come here?, NO! The end of the sockeye salmon dip netting season, which draws thousands down here, just finished and now rod and reel fishing draws more thousands. The traffic … Continued