Alaska Day 24 Anchorage to Talkeetna

A lazy AM, getting ready to move today. Destination: Talkneeta about 100 miles North and half way to Denali. Alice has been having problems with the accessory batteries of the RV not holding a charge. So off to an RV repair place in Anchorage. Turned out to be quite the big deal. Two of four of the batteries had not been replaced as requested a few months ago. 🤬 For lunch I went into the RV, got some ham, cheeses and bread and we ate our "picnic lunch" in the parts department. 🤣. While waiting in the afternoon, I went for walk - as usual in Alaska - a walking/biking path across the street. Trail ran along Ship Creek and was full of salmon swimming up stream!). Amazing - all kinds f salmon, King, pink and sockeye. Second picture below is the salmon in the water (Look closely). After 6 hours, we were on our way to Talkeenta - fortunately only about 100 miles away. About 50 miles up the road we are stopped at a stoplight and some fellow is beeping his horn at us on the driver's side. He hollered to Alice that we had lost a hub cap, he had retrieved it and asked us to pull aside to give it to us !!!!! Can you believe it ? However the RV has 4 tires in the back and from the hub cap coming loose it had broken the extender on the air valve between the 2 tires an both were going flat! The fellow know of a tire place nearby, looked it up for us and said they closed at 6PM. It was 5:50. We arrived at 5:56. The fellow worked overtime to get us going by putting air in the tires and new valves in both tires. AND did not charge us anything!!! Amazing. Needless to say we were highly grateful and back on the road by 6:45. Arrived at our campground in Talkeenta at 7:45 and wine never tasted so good🤣. Heated up some soup and bed. What a day.Read more