We had decided to get off to an early start this a.m. so AIS (Ass in Seat) at 6:30 ready to depart. Got a few gallons of gas to get us up the hill as gas kind of expensive in Valdez - only 1 station. We really enjoyed our stay at this RV park, they went out of their way to make us welcome and it seemed effortless. It was a big park too....over 400 spaces I think. The drive to Tok is about 215 miles through canyons and over a mountain pass by some glaciers.
The first spot is Keystone Canyon and it is just gorgeous! Very steep walls with a river at the bottom and waterfalls everywhere! Then we went up through Thompson Pass and on to Worthington Glacier. Cloudy and rainy of course...whenever we want to go to a glacier it seems to be cloudy and rainy. Of course at one point at Worthington, it was pouring. Jerry and I had our rainsuits on and we all walked to the viewpoint. Barb and Frank then went on and Jerry and I walked down some of the glacial moraine and the river up really close to the glacier. When we returned to the camper we decided to have breakfast with the glacier as our backdrop so we had a bowl of cereal. The beauty of the RV is that we can eat whenever we decide to. Sometimes I even get the stuff out while we are driving and make us a sandwich. I have gotten really good at making sandwiches while we are stopped for road construction waiting on the lead cars to come pick up our direction of traffic. We have had lots of lunches that way!
After Worthington, we stopped again at Klutina/Copper River area. There is a loop road and the salmon were running. We talked about getting a license and fishing in the river, but decided against it. They were catching some and we watched them at the cleaning tables for a while. Actually, salmon don't feed on their way to spawn. I think I already covered this in another blog entry. What they are essentially doing is snagging the salmon. The seagulls were having a feast as well b/c the fishermen would throw the carcasses and guts in the river and the seagulls were right there to snatch them up.
Met up with Frank and Barb at Glennallen. Too cloudy to see Wrangell peaks today so I am glad we saw them on the way down...they were pretty impressive. As we continued on towards Tok, we stopped at one point to watch a female moose standing in the middle of a shallow lake eating water plants from the bottom of the lake. I got pix of her w/ her head totally under water. That was interesting....still no Bullwinkle tho!
Finally arrived at Sourdough RV park in Tok - got the last 2 spots when we called. Jerry and I went into town...he is looking for a hat and/or t shirts w/ Al-Can highway on it. We went to a couple of tourist shops and did get some shirts and stuff, but still not what he was looking for. Back to RV park for the evening.
Turned out to be pretty fun place. They have entertainment every nite along with a dinner. About 6:30 we heard bluegrass music coming from the pavillion. I had felt a bit nauseated earlier, but laid down for a bit and was fine. Couldn't find Jerry as he had gone to dump trash so I walked over and figured he would find me. The band tonite was Foxfire and they are a group of 3 young brothers who are really into bluegrass. They are originally from NM and were traveling to someplace in AK to teach at a music camp. We enjoyed their music and had reindeer chili for dinner with key lime cheesecake for dessert - all homemade and very good. The chili was served in sourdough bread bowls. They have some CD's out if anyone is interested, you can find them at foxfire.com. Frank and Barb had elected to just relax and stay in for the evening and we had already decided we needed to leave EARLY in the a.m. b/c tomorrow is a long driving day...about 370 miles to Whitehorse and really bad roads in places.
We had some heavy thunderstorms and rain as we got into town, but they kind of came and went...had gone by evening entertainment so that was nice. More tomorrow, Linda
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