Day 6: Travel Day to Seward

Our travel day began early, unfortunately, not smoothly. Turns out I did not update our bus pickup location when I changed our lodging in February, so we were 20 minutes north of where the bus was waiting for us with no way to get there. This was not a good discovery. In my defence, both places were called Denali Park Lodge, or some mix of those names.

Much to our relief, we booked with the nicest and most accommodating bus company. Instead of leaving us high and dry, they were so kind and sent a runner to pick us up. I have never been so happy that we are light packers as we crammed all 5 of us and our luggage into that rickety minivan.

Once on the bus, we breathed a sigh of relief, I turned off my phone and we rolled on. At the halfway point pitstop, I turned my phone back on to discover a set of messages from our B&B host in Denali. Turns out there was another boy staying at the B&B and we had accidentally grabbed his boots, which were just like Holden's. After some scrambling from our host, we discovered that they were also heading to Anchorage that day. We had to do some running around in Anchorage before heading out, but eventually found the right person to leave the mystery boy's boots with. It wasn't the smoothest day, but it could have been much worse.

With those hiccups behind us, we began the 2 hour drive from Anchorage to Seward. It was a gray, rainy day so while we couldn't see mountaintops, we could see the waters of Turnagain Bay and some ridgelines as we entered the Kenai Peninsula. It was so beautiful that I wouldn't let the boys use their screens and they didn't even complain (that much).

We made it to our Airbnb in Seward and Papa decided to stay at the house and rest while we headed in to explore Seward. We quickly discovered the playground next to the bay and the boys were in their element. Later we grabbed some dinner & groceries then headed back to rest up from our long travel day.

Tomorrow: Kenai Fjords National Park & the Alaska Sea Life CenterRead more