Northwestward Ho to Anchorage

Yes, this is an example of the roads we have been on for several days.  Thank goodness, we have finished the last mile of rough road and bumps and dips, and copious potholes, bad patches and gravel stretches followed by mostly badly paved stretches of highway.  

We are sitting in the RV in the same park where we stayed last year after going to the airport and renting a car so we can get around between now and Tuesday afternoon when our flight departs.

Parked behind us is a Chalet with the tag number of FUN 231; our tag last year was FUN 232.  HA, what a coinkidink, huh?  I took lots of pictures of mountains today but I can’t put all of them on the blog so I’ll try to put some of them on here and some on Facebook. 

 

Then there was the glacier that has dissipated over the millennia.  We drove down an impassible gravel road with ess curves, blind curves and a single lane wooden bridge.  We thought $100 was a bit pricey for a guided tour so we went back up the horrible road, over the even more horrible bridge and stopped at a scenic overlook and good passable pictures.  Cannot imagine how it could have been worth that much money to see it up close and personal. 

The mountain range that we followed today was the Chugach Mountains and had some very impressive peaks and glaciers.  The second mountain picture is of Mt. Sanford which is over 16,000 feet high.  Click on the picture to make it bigger and look above the cloud cover.  It's a monster.   We crossed many creeks and rivers, some big, some small, but all moving rapidly.  Some of them were gray and cloudy with the material from the glaciers above and others were crystal clear. 

We traveled 276 miles today which gave us a total of 5769 miles for the trip.  My fanny feels every one of those miles.   This picture shows us pulled over as far as we could safely go, waiting for this bus to pass.  A truck was in front of it with a sign saying two buses were following.  We were grateful when that was over.  Just another scary day on the Alaska Highway.   

Tomorrow is Memorial Day so I don’t know how much will be open but Anchorage is a tourist town so we may find things happening.  Anyway, we have most of Tuesday to sightsee and shop for doodads before our plane departs at 5:00.  After we leave Anchorage, we have a layover in Seattle, then Cleveland, then to Orlando where we land at 11:15 a.m., June 1^st.  I’ll probably be crabby by that time.