We woke up today at 5:45 and once again had to put the heat on in the rig to take the chill out before we got showers. The weather was cloudy and cool and things were not looking good for a nice sunny day. Our girly girls, Cuddles and Zoe, did not even want to get out of bed. They looked at each other as if to say, “Oh dear, we are going to be traveling again.” If Zoe could talk, she probably would have said she was ready to go back home and see the yum yum lady, our neighbor Denise. Not that she has not been getting yum yums from fellow travelers.
At mile marker 12.6 we were starting to see hints of sun. However, that did not last long. At mile marker 24.2, Ira decided to stop along the road and wash the windshield. Most of our fellow campers do it the day they get in from a long ride; however, Ira is a little different.
Today’s journey consisted of long hills to climb, lousy weather and many, many frost heaves. This caused our travel to be a little longer than expected. However, on another note, it was great scenery and good points of interest to visit.
Our first place of interest was the Matanuska Glacier. What a beautiful glacier this was to see today. We also traveled the Eureka Summit, which has an elevation of 3,322 feet and it is the highest point on the Glenn Highway. We also stopped at the Worthington Glacier State Recreation site and took pictures of that glacier.
We also saw pump station #12 of the Alaska Pipeline. This pumping station is one of several that are responsible for pumping oil to the Port of Valdez. The oil is shipped to the "lower 48" and to the rest of the world.
Two of my favorites on this trip today were Bridal Veil Falls and the Horsetail Falls. The girls were feeling a little left out each time we left the RV so we decided to include them in a group picture. We took their picture in front of Bridal Veil Falls. We then proceeded to the Horsetail Falls in which Ira (Dad, Poppy) decided to walk up and take a drink from the falls. I did not know he was doing this until a fellow traveler said Ira was going up the falls. When he came down they told him he better be careful that he does not get "ice worms."
We arrived at Bear Paw Camper Park at 4:00 PM and quickly set up the rig for our stay, and you guessed it, it started to rain again. With hopes of walking down to the harbor to check things out, but this will have to be done later when the rain stops. But I doubt it ever will.
We later had dinner with Evelyn and Jim and this consisted of homemade chicken pot pie, wine and sour dough bread. After dinner, Evelyn asked me if I wanted to go down where they were fishing to see if we could see the bears eating fish. Jim, Evelyn and I decided to take the trip and guess what? We saw a momma bear and her three cubs down by the water catching fish. Ira stayed home and was unloading our camera for the blog today and Evelyn thought Jim had his camera in the car. I managed to get pictures on my cell phone, however, I haven’t learned how to unload them as of yet as I do not use the camera that often to take pictures.
This was the most awesome view of the day. It was worth all the bad weather we had throughout the day.
bear photos courtesy of Evelyn Northup
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