Our time on the southern coastline of Alaska was done (for now). We set our sights north and headed to the Wasilla/Palmer area, about 40 miles north of Anchorage. We found ourselves another stellar Elks Lodge in the Palmer/Wasilla area.…
Bore Tide at Turnagain Arm
The time and date dependent destination I mentioned in the blog post about Whittier was Turnagain Arm. It was only a short distance away from Whittier. I feel obligated to insert a geography lesson at this point. My apologies, but…
Whittier
We had some time to kill before our next date-dependent destination, so we decided to spent a few hours in the town of Whittier, Alaska. I had heard of Whittier through various news stories and anecdotal accounts from others. What…
Kenai
After our epic time in Homer, we wanted to try one more place on the Kenai Peninsula, the town of Kenai which is on the Cook Inlet. It was a short 82 mile drive northward. There was an Elks Lodge…
Homer
We made our way from Seward back to Anchorage to drop Janelle off at the airport for her return to the East Coast. Since we were back in a major city, we spent a couple of days refreshing our tanks…
Seward & Kenai Fjords National Park
After departing Denali National Park, our second big destination for Janelle’s visit was Kenai Fjords National Park. Janelle is our resident coastal ecologist. When I mentioned Kenai Fjords as a possible destination, her enthusiasm was immediate! So we set off…
Denali National Park
Big destination #1 for Janelle’s visit, was Denali National Park. We headed here from Talkeetna to take advantage of the camping reservations I had made back in December. This is the ONLY reservation we had made in advance. We arrived…
Copper Country
It’s time to explore Alaska! Let’s go. We had no specific plans and no reservations. It’s still early in the season so it turns out you really don’t need reservations right now. We pulled out the map and decided to…
Adventures along the Alaska Highway
The last post discussed the realities of driving the Alaska Highway. Let’s now show you some of the fun we had along the way! Admittedly, we came through this section of the world faster than we would have liked. But…
Navigating the Alaska Highway
First, let me share a website so you can see where we are in real time on days we are driving. We have a Garmin InReach Satellite communicator, purchased for use in case of an emergency where there is no…