We booked a boating excursion with Kenai Fjords Tours that took us up the coast and into fjords. Beautiful views of glaciers, mountains and wildlife that we saw along this route: Pictures of the sites: We had a great ride and it was very interesting talking with the park ranger Read more
After Homer we flew to Florida to establish our new residency. You see, Illinois only gave us temporary driver licenses when we changed to a Class B (over 16,000 pounds) license. The actual new ones were supposed to be mailed to us, but since we don’t have an Illinois residence Read more
The best memory of Alaska (besides sharing this adventure with my beautiful wife and having the kids come and visit us, of course) was the Alaska Bear Adventure excursion that we did out of Homer. We boarded a small plane bound for the Katmai National Park that landed on the Read more
The last day of a trip is always difficult to plan. You kind of just wait around all day until you have to drive someone to the airport. We took in more sites of Anchorage and went to Earthquake Park to see the devastation left from the 1964 quake. Although Read more
One of the experiences that Keenan wanted to have in Alaska was to see a glacier. We booked an excursion aboard the Ptarmigan to sail to the Portage Glacier. What a site! We were able to get in pretty close and see it up close. Heard and saw some calving Read more
Had a beautiful sunset upon our arrival into Anchorage overlooking the bay. We pulled into our “campground”, the Creekside Inn and RV Park which sits right on a major thoroughfare and it was loud. Not ideal, but we didn’t stay around the Busse Bus too much so it worked, plus Read more
One of my favorite parts of having the kids visit us was that they got to see us tear down a site, travel between locations and set up at the new RV park. Keenan got a little work done during traveling down to Anchorage while Bear got in a nap. Read more
What a beautiful day for a hike! We decided to do the Mount Healy Overlook Trail which is rated as “strenuous” with a rise of 1,700 feet and it’s 2.7 miles one-way. It got a little chilly and windy at the top of the overlook but it offered a great Read more
