On the road

We went from Valdez back up to Tok, thus completing the Alaska “Loop”.  Along the way we stopped to take some great photos of the snow-capped mountains. Beautiful drive.  Pulled back into the Tok RV Village (frequent stayers now) and met a nice couple, Larry and Donna Hickey from Paducah, 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

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