To Copper River

We boarded a bus and left the Hotel Captain Cook at 9:45 AM for Copper River. We stopped on the way to photograph the Matanuska Glacier. We had lunch at the Eureka Road House at mile marker 128 on the Richardson Highway. I had chili and Glenda had soup and a chicken salad sandwich. The road houses were important institutions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They served as little outposts of civilization in a vast wilderness. Offering food, lodging and supplies, they were essential for survival. We arrived at the Copper River Princess Lodge about 3:30 PM,Läs mer