I didn't have a blog yesterday because we stayed at Chugach National Forest near the Portage Glacier. It is sthe 2nd largest national forest in the U.S. It is in the Portage Valley near the Portage Glacier. There are several glaciers there which I mentioned when we visited there earlier. I am attaching a picture of a glacier. This is the view from where we parked our RV. As I said we didn't have a blog because of no wi-fi. Also no water and electricity. Real fun time! We stayed there because it was near where we needed to be this morning to start our trip. After we arrived at the campground, we drove to the nearby Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. My cousin, Linda highly recommended this. The Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving ... read more

Drove from Kenai to Seward yesterday. Cloudy, misty day. Yesterday afternoon, Charlie, Ruth, Jim and I drove from our RV park to Seward which is about 6 miles away. I tried to take some pictures but it was too overcast. Today was a comletely different day. Sunny and beautiful. Was about 54 when we got up today. Probably got to 60 today. Jim, Charlie and Jerry went on a hike to Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park. Jim said that it was about a mile uphill. He said it was an enjoyable hike. I am attaching pictures that he took there. I had one of the nicest evenings of my entire trip tonight. I got to visit with two of my cousins, Vickie and Linda here in Seward. Their dad and my dad were brothers. ... read more

The end of the road. We went to Homer Alaska today which is at the end of the Sterling Hwy. on the Kenai Pennisula. This is about 80 miles from where we are in Kenai. Homer is the Halibut Fishiing Capital of the World. At the end of the road in Homer, there is a narrow piece of land called a spit that extends about 2 1/2 miles into Kachemak Bay of Cook Inlet. The spit has a road running through it with widths of the spit being approx. 50 ft. to maybe 500 ft. The harbor of Homer is at the spit. I imagine the main industry there is fishing. Big ferries come in there and also big commercial boats come in there. On the road to Homer, we stopped at Anchor Point. It is ... read more

Had kind of a slow day today. We had light rain this morning and around 60. We went to church this morning and then out for breakfast. It took us almost 2 hrs. to get our food. Friday, on our way here, Jim turned on the air-conditioning and the blower wouldn't work. Jim thought maybe it was a fuse. He has been trying to find the problem since we got here. Yesterday, one of the men (Dan) who is involved with the Work Camp that I mentioned yesterday, came by to invite us to the dinner last night. Jim mentioned his problem. It just so happened that Dan used to have a heating/air-conditioning business in Michigan. He came by today and he and Jim finally found the problem. It was a four prong connector that had ... read more

We left Palmer this morning - beautiful sunny day - around 70. Drove south of Anchorage on the Seward Highway. Absolutely beautiful drive with the mountains on one side and the water on the other. I thank God for the eyes to see all the beauty he has given us. We drove through the Chugach National Forest and came to the Portage Valley where the Portage Glacier and several other glaciers are located. Beautiful. We had lunch in our RV looking at the Portage Glacier. Don't think you could get a better view anywhere. We traveled on down the Kenai Peninsula. Again, this drive is beautiful. Lots of lakes and rivers. I noticed in the Kenai River that there were fishermen standing in the water fishing. I asked Carroll about this as he lived here and ... read more