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 Read more…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…