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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 […]

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,

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

Homer is very dog friendly!  Finally, a great stop for Murphy.  There was a beautiful overlook right before we got into town.  Helen and her camera lens went “off trail” to get a great shot of Kachemak Bay, where Homer is located.  Helen getting the photo! Helen’s photo in the Fireweed When we first arrived

Is it Sunday already?  Wow…what a week, especially for Greg & Helen.  They were able to fly to Kodiak Island and spend a few days with Greg’s cousin.  We are publishing a separate blog just for their fun adventure and of course, complete with their gorgeous pictures.  Please do not miss reading about their fun.

As we left our northernmost stop of Fairbanks and headed south, traveling back the way we came on the Parks Highway, it was a beautiful day, with a clear blue sky.  And not long into our drive, there she was in the distance…Denali.   Spectacular!   We stopped several times, each overlook giving us a different view

It was a bit tough going from almost a week in the wilderness of Denali to the “big” city of Fairbanks.  Fairbanks is only a little over a 2 hours drive north of Denali National Park along the Parks Highway.   The Parks Highway, originally known as the Anchorage to Fairbanks Highway, was completed in 1971,

We saw Denali again!  First on Friday morning and then again early on a crisp Monday morning.  It was 43°, but with the wind chill it was 34°  And this is their summer! So majestic in the distance.  I also included some other of the gorgeous wilderness that embodies Denali National Park. Denali Monday A.M.

First, the fire crews did an exceptional job and opened Denali National Park on July 10th, just one day before our reservation.  Yay!   And second, we saw Denali!  But first, a big thank you to Greg & Helen for the awesome feature photo of this blog.  Their powerful camera lens has enabled us to bring

When you think of Valdez, what do you think of?  Is it the destructive 1964 Good Friday earthquake, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale and the tsunami that followed which caused the Army Corps of Engineers to move the town 4 miles away?  Or, perhaps the 800-mile-long transatlantic pipeline, opened on August 1, 1977, which