• Alaska trip 2024
    At the pizza place they had the camera on the screen of the bears a Brooks Falls catching salmon!
    Wolverine ready to jump down and get my pizza!This is The Prospector which means supreme pizza in Alaskan, I think.Helicopter sling loading water to the fire.1Outside a gift shopAnother waiting location outside the same shopBrrr! Wool stocking cap and puffy coat !Snowshoe hare as we went to breakfastBeautiful dahlias in the land of the midnight sun!Another pretty dahlia.The original "van" transportation. It sat out 70 years before restoration. Seats 22.You can see where the fire started here near the rail line.My home away from home!

    Near Denali-Day 2

    July 7, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 50 °F

    The park will remain closed until July 10 which was to be our last day here anyway. Phil and I went our for pizza last night at a place on the strip outside the park. It was almost a Montana bar with lots of stuffed animals, but it served Alaska beers and reindeer sausage on the pizzas and had Alaska place names for the pizzas.

    It is cold and Phil and I are wearing both wintercoats and rain coats today. We went out for breakfast and kind of moped around. Doing laundry, too. Good rainy day stuff.

    On a brighter note, I skipped ahead and booked us an AirBNB cabin for July 8 and 9 outside of Fairbanks. We move to a KOA for 3 nights after that. We've got an oil change for the car and will get wheel bearings repacked on the camper in Fairbanks in preparation for beginning our trip back toward the lower 48 later this month.    Read more