Espresso Drive-Thru
----------------------------------------ANOTHER Espresso Drive-Thru
Mountains around Wasilla and Palmer
Homestead RV Park Palmer, AK
----------------------------------------------Mountain views from Wasilla, AK ------------------------------Monday July 26, 2002. Left Ninilchik Alaskan Angler RV Park this morning about 10:45am. It rained all night and was still raining all the way to Palmer, which is where we are staying tonight. Palmer is about 35 miles northeast of Anchorage and is a very pretty area. It sets in a mountain basin and as always the mountain views are just awesome. If I had a dollar for all the mountain shots I have taken on our trip, I'd be somewhat richer for sure! I have a real passion for the mountains and the water which is in great abudance in Alaska. We drove out of the Kenai Peninsula today and even though this is our 4th drive through the Seward Highway into Anchorage, the views are just as breathtaking as the first. God must have created Alaska on a Saturday because after all this beauty he would defiantly need to rest on Sunday!!!
Our neighbors at Ninilchik went out on a Halibut charter early this morning. We did not see them before we left but Barb sent me an email tonight saying that they came in early because everyone on the charter caught their limit. Barb and Jim ended up with about 15 lbs of Halibut fillets. I'm happy they caught fish. Larry is still talking about how much he enjoyed fishing for the reds yesterday with Jim. I'm really happy he got a chance to go again. Wish we could get a few Salmon fillets to put in our freezer. Not meant to be obviously but we may still have a chance to try for some after Pete and Leslie leave.
Our neighbors at Ninilchik went out on a Halibut charter early this morning. We did not see them before we left but Barb sent me an email tonight saying that they came in early because everyone on the charter caught their limit. Barb and Jim ended up with about 15 lbs of Halibut fillets. I'm happy they caught fish. Larry is still talking about how much he enjoyed fishing for the reds yesterday with Jim. I'm really happy he got a chance to go again. Wish we could get a few Salmon fillets to put in our freezer. Not meant to be obviously but we may still have a chance to try for some after Pete and Leslie leave.
Well we are back to the motor home mania again!! Of course driving in the rain we had the issue of the 'check engine' light coming on again! That I can ignore but when this happens the exhaust break quits working. Somehow I just can't seem to get use to flying down the mountain side at 85 miles an hour. When we came through Anchorage, we stopped at Freightliner. Of course when they see us pull in the parking lot they turn all the lights off and throw their 'closed' sign up on the door! They might as well do that because to get an appointment, we would have to stay in Alaska until October! They really are so hard to work with! I have no idea when they will be available to check this problem out again. By the way, I don't think I mentioned that when they had the RV in the first time, they scrapped the paint off the side of the mirror on the drivers side. They must have scraped it on the door as they drove it into the bay. Kinda makes you wonder if they have anyone that knows what they are doing if they can't drive a big rig into the bay without taking off the mirror@! I was pretty upset about that when I saw it and I wanted to call them about it but Larry told me to back off. Probably because he know we were not finished with needing their services!!!
Some of the things I have observed about Alaska is they all drink lots of coffee, liquor and all must be religious. There is an espresso drive-thru every 5 miles, a bar on every corner, church's and religions that I have never heard of. So no matter how small the town, these three establishes will make up the majority of the town. The espresso drive-thru's are funny as they are normally just a very tiny building setting off the side of the road and sometimes they are not even near a town --just along side the road by themselves.
We are staying at the Homestead RV Park in Palmer. The campsites are very pretty with huge cedar trees all around the grounds and looking out our front window is the most beautiful mountains imaginable. We hooked up and it was still pouring rain so we both laid here watching TV from the back of our eyelids for more than an hour. The only thing I can say about the rain is it makes for good sleeping --you feel like that's all you want to do. We finally got our body's off the couch and went to Wasilla to buy groceries. We used our last 4 slices of VERY stale bread today for sandwiches while driving. I had to ration the food while in Ninilchik as there was no way I planned to buy any groceries there at their prices-- ie: $7.39 for a loaf of bread!! We ended up at Wally World in Wasilla tonight and restocked our cupboards and frig. Wasilla is a very nice and modern town. They have a Target, Sears, Lowes and many small shops so it's like an oasis here in Alaska. On the Kenai Penisula there are mostly ma and pa general stores with prices to die for.
We are staying at the Homestead RV Park in Palmer. The campsites are very pretty with huge cedar trees all around the grounds and looking out our front window is the most beautiful mountains imaginable. We hooked up and it was still pouring rain so we both laid here watching TV from the back of our eyelids for more than an hour. The only thing I can say about the rain is it makes for good sleeping --you feel like that's all you want to do. We finally got our body's off the couch and went to Wasilla to buy groceries. We used our last 4 slices of VERY stale bread today for sandwiches while driving. I had to ration the food while in Ninilchik as there was no way I planned to buy any groceries there at their prices-- ie: $7.39 for a loaf of bread!! We ended up at Wally World in Wasilla tonight and restocked our cupboards and frig. Wasilla is a very nice and modern town. They have a Target, Sears, Lowes and many small shops so it's like an oasis here in Alaska. On the Kenai Penisula there are mostly ma and pa general stores with prices to die for.
Not sure what the plan is for tomorrow. Possibly we will find a river to fish as Larry has the fishing fever now.
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