MJ Adventures

Monday started with a wonderful breakfast, which Mike cooked outdoors. He fixed scrambled eggs, hash browns, breakfast sausage & blueberry pancakes. We were certainly full for quite a while after all that food! We continued down the Cassiar Highway to Stewart, BC. It is a beautiful drive with many, many glaciers & waterfalls along the way. I wonder how many times I have commented to Mike, “this is so beautiful” throughout this trip. We have also lost count on how many glaciers & waterfalls we have seen; I love them all! We camped for two nights at Bear River RV Park in Stewart, BC. Very nice little campground along the river & very quiet as it sits out of town a little bit, although Stewart is a very small town, so pretty quiet everywhere. We needed ... read more

I think I left off on Monday evening; no bears at Alison Point! Tuesday morning we had reservations for a glacier & marine wildlife tour to Columbia Glacier through Prince William Sound out of Valdez. What an amazing day & experience! Our captain was a wealth of knowledge on the history of Valdez, the big spill from the Exxon/Valdez in 1989 & life in the sound! I am going to say this was the highlight of our trip so far; although we loved the glacier landing in Denali & halibut fishing too! Columbia Glacier is the second largest tidewater glacier in the world & “calves” very large pieces of glacier ice almost daily. We felt like we might have been on the Titanic as our captain very carefully maneuvered our vessel through huge icebergs. The incredible ... read more

Thursday morning we still did not have much energy from this virus we have, so we took it easy around Seward. We walked along the harbor & watched boats come & go. Seward is a small seaside village, which has beautiful mountains all around. We went to the Alaska Sea Life Center where there are various sea life animals & birds to observe. It was fun watching the birds! We had a light lunch back at the RV before taking a nap. We felt a little better after resting, so we drove to Exit Glacier & went for a mile walk to the glacier for a better view. Last night was early to bed again, we were wore out! Today we are feeling better with just low grade fevers & coughs. We had a nice walk ... read more

Monday morning: I wrote our blog last night, but due to very slow Internet, it would not post. I am adding this little segment so the following makes sense. Oh yes, guess who has the fever this morning; me! I am writing this Sunday evening, which means we have been gone an entire month already. The time is really going fast! Mike still didn’t feel the best yesterday, so we had a very low key day. It was raining all day anyway, so no fun to be outdoors in such weather. I made chicken wild rice soup for lunch & after lunch, we put $24 in clothes washer & dryers! We went to the grocery store after laundry was done for a few supplies. We went to bed early because he felt lousy & we had ... read more

Wednesday we drove to Anchorage to meet up with our God daughter, Shawna Pike-Wahlstrom & her adorable 3 children, ages 5,4 & 2. Before we met her, we drove to Earthquake Park & walked 3 miles along a nice wooded trail. Anchorage suffered a very powerful earthquake on Good Friday, 1964. Earthquake Park is set in the woods where an entire neighborhood “slid” into the ocean during the 4 1/2 minute earthquake; unbelievable! After our walk we joined Shawna & the kiddos & enjoyed a very informative narrated tour of Anchorage on the trolley. Shawna was able to score tickets for free; which made the tour even better. Now a few facts about that earthquake; it was 10 times more powerful than the recent earthquake in Nepal, with 139 people losing their lives in the state ... read more