Monday, May 31st

We didn’t have WiFi last night so I couldn’t post. We’re at the airport in Anchorage and I’m catching up in a parking lot while Cliff rents a car. We agreed that it was too much trouble to move around. Anchorage in the RV and anyway, we’ll need one on Wednesday after we turn in the RV at 11:45 a.m. Our flight isn’t until 9:15 p.m. and no sane person would willing sit at an airport for that long.


We had salmon again last night, will have salmon salad for lunch and more salmon tonight. It is so delicious. Because we didn’t count on having such an abundance of salmon, we’re going to have food left over. Poor planning perhaps, but that salmon cost a whole lot more than that can of Bush’s Baked Beans sitting the pantry – and tastes better, too. We have been told that any unopened food is donated to a food bank here in Anchorage. Me thinks they get a fair amount from GAH patrons.

Our RV park reservations are for tonight and tomorrow night, then like the turtle that went to the psychiatrist, we’re coming out of our shell. The Winnie, that is. Get it? Ha, ha.

I gave away some of the salmon tonight. It would be such a shame to waste her since she gave her life to me. We had a great wine with dinner tonight: Chateau Ste. Michelle Harvest Select Riesling, Columbia Valley, 2009. It would be way too sweet for you Roxanna and Bill, since it is on the sweet end of the harvest. Sweet people that we are, we loved every drop.

We have met several members of the group from Forest City, Iowa, some in the park where we are tonight. Seems we all have had similar problems and we decided that we are on a shakedown cruise for Great Alaskan Holidays so that they can identify any problems with the new units and fix them before renting them. The GAH people are very smart. Of the three couples we talked to this afternoon who are staying in our current RV park, there are numerous problems that need to be addressed before the company rents the units. We all had furnace problems, one TV fell off the wall on the Yukon end of the Alcan. I thought that ours was going to also but it held on for dear life.

Cliff went to a nearby liquor store to get ice for the fish and when he went to the counter to pay, they carded him. Of course, he asked why are you carding me since I buying ice and obviously older than 21? It seems anybody buying anything in a liquor stores gets carded by law. He thought it was funny.