Daily updates to the traveling Busse Bus
Thousands of spawning, dying and dead salmon on the beach and trying to enter the nearby creeks is quite the sight to behold. The birds were having a great time eating fish, flying up the creek and riding the current back out to the sea. Nearby there was a fish Read more…
The only thing that I knew about Valdez was that it was the name of an oil tanker that struck a reef in Prince William Sound in the late 80’s and split a ton of oil that covered the sea life. With very little knowledge of what we were going Read more…
We headed back up the Kenai peninsula bypassing Anchorage and stopped at the Big Bear Campground and RV Park in Palmer, AK. Kat wanted to see the dog sleds in action so we booked an excursion to fly up onto a glacier where a team and crew were performing summer Read more…
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…
Back down the Kenai peninsula but this time on the east side to Seward. Pulled into the Stoney Creek RV Park and had enough time to go over to the harbor and eat dinner at Ray’s Waterfront restaurant. Wonderful place right on the harbor: Enjoyed seeing the boats and watching 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…
Drove down the Kenai Peninsula and stayed at the KOA just north of Homer on the bluff with a fantastic view! Had to pull in instead of backing so that we could get the view. The fireweed is in bloom and makes for beautiful contrasting pictures. We learned that when 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…