We have been so fortunate with weather cooperating in our travels. We had heard that it rains so much in Alaska, especially when you are around the coast, so bring proper rain gear. I brought two rain jackets (one with a warm liner), rain pants, and rain boots, which I have worn only a handful […]
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We ended our last blog with our fun bear observations. We made several trips back to the creek for bear watching and Helen took a few more photos to share. While hanging out on the observation deck, we got to know several of the rangers and it was fun learning more about the bears that
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As you can see from the feature photo, we were finally were able to watch bears interact and chomp on Salmon. Yay! More on that a bit later. We left Continental Divide RV Park, with a quick stop for fuel in Watson Lake, and headed south on the Stewart-Cassiar Highway. The 450-mile Cassiar is
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Dave and Brenda graciously said if we wanted to take the Top of the World Hwy to Dawson City, they would wait for us in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. I have an interest in gold mining and gold mining equipment so I was excited to see the Klondike. H and I had heard the stories of
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Earlier we shared that we upgraded the axles on the Mini-T (our Imagine 17MKE travel trailer). Dave was concerned on the uneven wear on one of the trailer tires and we made an appointment in Anchorage for a reputable shop to put 2 new, heavier axles on our trailer. We should good now, right?
If you remember, in the last blog I mentioned we needed special footwear for our next stop. Yep…we needed micro spikes, which are metal spikes attached to a rubber harness that is stretched over the bottom of hiking boots. We were off to hike on the Matanuska Glacier. Another fun Alaskan adventure! The Matanuska
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Whittier was our last stop on our tour around the Kenai Peninsula. Everything we read said to be tolerant of the persistent rain in the Kenai Peninsula. Just do what you want to do in the rain (probably like Seattle, WA). But, we so fortunate. It rained the day we drove from Anchorage to Hope,
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Seward is located on the east side of Kenai Peninsula, on Resurrection Bay. I thought we could just drive around the bottom from Homer. Nope…those darn although beautiful mountains are in the way. We had to drive back north and then down. It is such a scenic drive and it looks so different driving the
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Our trip to Kodiak was made possible by Brenda and Dave’s generosity. They drove us to the Anchorage airport, almost an hour away from our camp and picked us up on our return. Tks D&B! My cousin Paul, picked us up at the airport. Kodiak is a small island of about 14,000 people. 7k of
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