Wednesday, June 22, 2011 Sam’s Parking lot, Dimond Mall area of Anchorage. 59 degrees and very overcast. Starting mileage at 10287. We are currently sitting in the Sam's Club parking lot where we spent the night with a number of other Roadtrekkers. Out here in the ‘burbs there is one of every kind of store and fast food restaurant--put several Atlanta malls all together and you would have this area. Valerie took her computer and had breakfast at Mickey D's, as the signal strength here isn't good enough to upload more pictures to the blog. We chose to stay at the Sam's instead of the Wal-mart across the street, as the back parking area is on top of a Mickey D's which was fine for doing e-mail. Today is a “shopping and doing a couple loads ... read more

Saturday, June 18, 2011 Diamond M Ranch and RV park, Kenai Have now driven 10,028 miles. 55 degrees at 11:00 High clouds I worked some more on the daily narrative to try and get up to date and Valerie added pictures to my previous entries and posted a few to the travel blog. We both worked on cleaning Rosie II more. We had to leave the space by 11:00, so we closed things down and drove over to the bathhouse to take showers. Since it was 11:30 before we left, and we wanted to do some shopping in town, we stopped at a Mexican restaurant for lunch. We had a really good meal and took half of it home and had it for dinner. Filled the gas tank before we started out also. Since it was ... read more

June 16, 2011 Thursday Deep Creek Campground. Sunny looking west, cloudy and rainy looking to the east. 51 degrees out at 10:30 am. The tide this morning is the lowest for the month, at a minus 4.19 so, the beach was crawling with people out clamming. With a fishing license, free for kids, you are allowed 60 each and there is no size minimum for the clams. Hence, the beach was crawling with families with children in tow and church youth groups. One of the major problems with such a fluctuating tide is that boats have trouble getting into the water. They have solved this problem with big wheeled tractors. The boat is put on a boat trailer and towed across the mud flats and out into the water until it is deep enough for the ... read more

Monday-Tuesday, the 13th-14th Homer Spit weather mostly thick fog and rainy 48-50 degrees 9859-9879 mileage. Monday---read and slept until noon. Gathered up and did 5 loads of laundry at local laundromat that had wifi. Spent almost $40 to do so, as wash was $4.00 a load and dryer was .25 for 4 minutes. Drove up one of the residential roads that curved up on the hill and saw a pheasant male run across the road in front of us. In one of the lakes you crossed, we saw a mother duck with about 12 babies. Unfortunately, there was also an eagle nest across the road and we are not sure how many of those ducklings will be able to grow into adults. Moved down the spit to another campsite with 7-8 other Roadtreks. Tuesday---Booked and took ... read more

June 10th, 2011 In Seward camping on the waterfront of Resurrection Bay. 50 degrees this morning and is foggy and overcast. Starting mileage is 9572. Filled up with gas at the Esso Station at $4.59 a galleon. Rosie took 17 gals for a $78.72 price. Stopped briefly at Safeway as they have Friday specials of deli lunch meat for $5. a pound and we wanted to get some more chips that were reasonably priced, but wanted to try them before we got more of that brand. Drove the other side of Resurrection Bay on Nash Road tthat climbed up that side of the bay. At a pull off we looked out and watched several fishing boats lay out nets in a big circle. A small skiff with one man in it towed the end of the ... read more