Today is cleanup day. We have packed our big box to ship home by UPS with the things that are heavy or might not make it through the possible pilferage of the airport handlers. We will take care of that in the morning before the time to turn in the RV. Most of our other stuff is packed or will be soon.
Our salmon tonight was augmented by the gift of some small red potatoes from some other GAH people who turned in their unit this morning. Have a new unit next to us today, which will be turning in tomorrow like us.
I went downtown today and shopped while Cliff stayed home. He hates to shop and constantly sighs while shopping. Got some souvenirs and enjoyed my shopping time. After the trip to the UPS store in the morning, we will finish packing and then turn in the beast. Then we will mess around until supper time when we will have our first restaurant meal since the one at the Minnesota airport on May 14th. No salmon for me. How can you top what we have eaten over the last few days?
After we get home, I’ll publish our favorite pictures and then sign off for this wonderful trip to Alaska.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Tuesday, June 01
Today is cleanup day. We have packed our big box to ship home by UPS with the things that are heavy or might not make it through the possible pilferage of the airport handlers. We will take care of that in the morning before the time to turn in the RV. Most of our other stuff is packed or will be soon.
Our salmon tonight was augmented by the gift of some small red potatoes from some other GAH people who turned in their unit this morning. Have a new unit next to us today which will be turning in tomorrow like us.
I went downtown today and shopped while Cliff stayed home. He hates to shop and constantly sighs while shopping with me. Got some souvenirs and enjoyed my alone time. After the trip to the UPS store in the morning, we will finish packing and then turn in the beast. Then we will mess around until supper time when we will have our first restaurant meal since the one at the Minnesota airport on May 14th. No salmon for me. How can you top what we have eaten over the last few days?
After we get home, I’ll publish our favorite pictures and then sign off for this wonderful trip to Alaska. Next trip to follow.
Our salmon tonight was augmented by the gift of some small red potatoes from some other GAH people who turned in their unit this morning. Have a new unit next to us today which will be turning in tomorrow like us.
I went downtown today and shopped while Cliff stayed home. He hates to shop and constantly sighs while shopping with me. Got some souvenirs and enjoyed my alone time. After the trip to the UPS store in the morning, we will finish packing and then turn in the beast. Then we will mess around until supper time when we will have our first restaurant meal since the one at the Minnesota airport on May 14th. No salmon for me. How can you top what we have eaten over the last few days?
After we get home, I’ll publish our favorite pictures and then sign off for this wonderful trip to Alaska. Next trip to follow.
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.
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.
Sunday, May 30th
We’re taking it easy this morning showering, sweeping the RV and “computering”. We need to be in Seward about 11:30 for the cruise. It has drizzled most of the night and continues now. Hope it’s not raining later since I’m prepared with two sets of batteries for the camera. : )
The five-hour cruise was very good. We saw a sea otter, many seabirds such as Kittiwakes, Arctic terns, two kinds of puffins, common muirs, cormorants, and herring gulls; saw several mature bald eagles including a nesting pair on the nest. We saw Stellar sealions and three Orcas; also saw mountain goats, one nanny and her kid perched on a tiny outcropping that didn’t look quite big enough to hold them. Bear Glacier was pretty far in the distance but that was as close as the boat could/would go.
There is an unusual tunnel to get to Whittier. It is two and a half miles long, carved out of solid basalt which is evident as you drive by the rough hewn walls. It is a single lane and also has railroad tracks. The traffic lines up at the entrance according to size and every 15 minutes one side gets to go through the tunnel, unless there’s a train scheduled. The east and west portals are alternated every thirty minutes. The picture of the RV with Cliff waving from the door shows us as first in line in the RV lane.
Here’s a picture of Bear Glacier and one of a mountain we decided looks like the RKO logo. The seals were numerous as they sunned themselves on the rocks. The picture of the rocks where the kittiwakes nest is too disgusting to add to the log, educational but ikky.
Whittier had what seemed hundreds of trucks and boat trailers parked in the public lots. It seems that a lot of Alaskans have boats and RVs. Since it was a long weekend, Seward was packed with them also.
We went back through the tunnel to a remote park for the night.
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