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Sue and Steve's Travels Pacific - Ocean & Northwest
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- Jul 1, 2017
- 🌫 13 °C
- Altitude: 161 m
- United States Alaska Kenai Peninsula Borough Cooper Landing Bean Creek 60.491607, -149.84867260°29’30” N 149°50’55” W
Day 82
Cooper Landing, Alaska
July 1, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌫 13 °C
Kenai Princess Wilderness Lodge
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Bobbi and Rod Reeves Alaska Adventure 2018
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- May 24, 2018, 5:51pm
- 🌫 11 °C
- Altitude: 482 ft
- United States Alaska Kenai Peninsula Borough Cooper Landing Bean Creek 60.49084, -149.84961360°29’27” N 149°50’59” W
Day 9
On to the next locale!
May 24, 2018 in the United States ⋅ 🌫 11 °C
We left Homer and headed north - back on the same road we came in to Homer. There are only a handful of major highways in Alaska and to reach some places you have to fly to or go by boat. We are staying in Cooper Landing. To get here we traveled Alaska route 1 through towns with names of Anchor Point, Ninilchik, Clam Gulch and Soldotna. We are back in the Chugach National Forest. This is the first campground that is not on the water but in the woods. It's a very beautiful place within hiking distance to the Kenai River. Cooper Landing was named for Joseph Cooper, a miner who discovered gold there in 1884. However, Peter Doroshin, a Russian engineer, had found gold prospects as far back as 1848 when the territory was still part of Russian America. Besides the town being named after Joseph Cooper, there is also Cooper Lake and Cooper Creek. The first school was started in 1929. Cooper Landing is about 70 square miles with the majority being land. We talked with one of the locals who said their snow varies from just a foot to as much as 6 feet. After setting up camp we hiked down to the river.

We are a little over a week in to our travels and have gone about 450 miles. It doesn't seem like a lot but we have seen a lot of the Kenai Peninsula and are heading north to go east then back south.Read more
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- Aug 1, 2019, 7:52am
- ☁️ 52 °F
- Altitude: 522 ft
- United States Alaska Kenai Peninsula Borough Cooper Landing Bean Creek 60.48833, -149.8516760°29’18” N 149°51’6” W
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Day 47
The beginning of the end of the trip...
August 1, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 52 °F
Got going a little early this morning so I could spend time up at the Princess lobby having coffee as I used their Wi-fi to catch up with finances on my lap top. Cell service had been pretty good, but need Wi-fi for computer and quicken. (Have to make sure we have enough money to get home!)

Meanwhile Cindy packed up her stuff for her flight home. And really the rest of the day was about driving into Anchorage, saying good by to the Kenai, to the conservation center, to Portage Glacier, Whittier, and Seward, and the Turnigan Arm...all memories shared off of the highway we drove. No wildlife, except two swans at Potters Marsh. It was a gray and quiet day.

Easy travel to the airport, and last hugs goodbye to Cindy! Then back on the road to make some headway getting south. Drove out the Glenn highway which actually is yet another gorgeous drive. Drove by the Matenuska glacier, and up into lots of tundra and spots of lakes. Some big overlooks to the valley below. A little dry on this side...

Found a campsite just outside of Glennallen, quiet, with very few folks. Nice wooded sites, so it was empty enough I could let Auggie have some "off leash" time. He seems a little despondent since losing his primary caretaker!

Fairly long drive day, just over 300 miles, which is more than we normally do. Leftovers and salad for dinner!Read more
You all look like a fun group to hang out with. Lollie
8/2/19Reply
Never easy to say goodbye for now, but it sounds like you guys made some very awesome memories. Lollie!
8/3/19Reply
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