We are back in Seward at the J-Dock with minutes to spare. Optimists, we are hauling our big new cooler along in the event we get our limit. Our excursion partners are two friends traveling together from the West Coast, one of whom self-describes as being on the trip of a lifetime. We can relate. [...]
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SEWARD
We aren’t on deadline to make Seward, but even so it seems we have made a 2-1/2 hour drive south from Anchorage much longer by stopping to drink in view after view of glacial mountains. The road into town slows just past Bear Creek and Moose Pass, with houses on small tracts behind screens of [...]
INTO THE KENAI
With our time in Alaska already half-spent, we are heading south from Anchorage to the Kenai Peninsula. Although we’ve been told we should, we will not be going all the way to Homer and its tempting Spit. I am disappointed, but philosophical. We just don’t have the time. So we continue to add to the [...]
CLAIRE – NO SMALL ADVENTURE
I was happy to see a large bookstore almost immediately after we arrived in Anchorage. I needed something to read. I like to visit bookstores wherever we are, because there is always treasure. (Earlier this summer, the treasure was a photograph of my father.) I wanted to immerse myself in a book that would ground [...]
ROAD RETURNING
It is the first time that we exit and go south from Denali National Park. We have arranged for a late arrival in Anchorage, but it is already far into the afternoon. We are both pensive, thinking of what might have been: a glimpse of the mountain, more photos of wildlife. At our backs, I [...]
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