Looking For Coffee In Juneau We began Saturday (7/26) by looking for coffee in Juneau. Arlene had picked out a place called Spearfish Coffee that seemed to be closed. We stopped by the same places several other times and it seemed to always be closed. But we also walked around Juneau for a while before…
First Full Day in Juneau
Since we got in so late we spent the first half of the day unpacking and re-organizing after 3 days of living out of the suitcase. In those 3 days we had been unable to refreeze the ice in the cooler so we were a little worried about the milk and eggs, but they were…
Catching Up
Saturday (7/19) (Anchorage) Coffee at Snow City Cafe. While we sipped our coffe we rented bikes a couple of block from the Anchorage Coastal trail. The bikes had flat platforms for pedals and I had to request one with a water bottle cage. The pricing was $20 for the first hour and $5 for each…
Thursday and Friday
Whittier On Thursday we went to Whittier. There is only one road from Anchorage to Whittier and it involves a single lane tunnel that runs under Maynard Mountain and is 2.5 miles long. The single lane contains a set of railtracks as well and, in fact, from when the tunnel was constructed in the early…
The First Few Days in Anchorage
Tides Tides in Anchorage vary my more than 30 feet. There is an island southwest of Anchorage in the north end of Cook Inlet that is not an island during low tide. When the tide out the mud flats stretch to the horizon. We ought to go back to that place (Kincaid Park) during high…
Grewingk Lake and the Alpine Trail
The Entire Day Arlene and I left the AirBnB at 6:20am to catch a 7am water taxi across Kachimak Bay. We reached the beach on the other side at about 7:30am with 6 hours before another water taxi would pick us up on a different beach. We were the only ones on the boat and…
Homer
First A Few Words About Bear Creek Weir To get from Sewerd to our AirBnB (in Seward) we drove north on the Seward Highway then turned left onto Bear Creek Road and drove down a ways, then there was the AirBnB. But but before that we would always pass the Bear Creek Weir. Initially we…
A Few Quiet Days
Note We’ve been having trouble completing blog entries because the internet in our currrent AirBnB is spotty. Hopefully we’ll get this one done today. We’ll be moving from Seward to Homer on Friday. Rainy Sunday The weather was predicted to be a bit more rainy and cloudy on Sunday that it had been and the…
Ptarmigan Lake
Hiking We drove to the trailhead and walked up Ptarmigan Creek. In many places the path was nearly overgrown. We’re supposed to make noise so any bears around know that we’re there. Today the noise was me complaining about the overgrown path. Eventually we arrived at this lake: Then we took our own picture in…
Alice Mountain
Hiking After a long hike yesterday we decided on the shorter hike up to Alice Mountain today. It was only 5 miles round trip to the top, but it gained about 2500 feet. Ultimately we failed to reach the peak because of snow but we stopped only 300 feet below the summit and the views…