Alaska Trip - Just a quick update

The WiFi here in the campground is a bit slow so I'll post pictures later.  We stayed in Anchorage for 2 days waiting for the weather to change.  It looked like it was going to clear up so we headed out from Anchorage toward Homer on the Kenai Peninsula.

When we left Anchorage on the 14th it was raining on and off, but the further down the peninsula we got the better the weather got.  By the time we arrived in Homer it was clear and sunny!! The view going into Homer is spectacular.  It was very windy down on the Spit so we decided to find a more secluded campground. We spent the night just north of Homer in a campground alongside a large creek.  While setting up the tents we received a visit from a cow Moose and her twins.  They stayed on the other side of the creek eating and enjoying the sunshine.  When they were done they wandered back into the forest.  Several times before we went to bed Eagles flew about 20 feet over our heads up and down the creek looking for Salmon.  We took no chances with bears that night, we hung our food up in the trees.

The morning of the 15th was clear and sunny and the trip from Homer to Seward was filled with eye candy.  The mountains and glaciers are very distracting for someone on a motorcycle.  We visited the Exit Glacier and spent some time in downtown Seward looking around.  Most of the campgrounds in Seward were filled up, the Silver Salmon are starting their runs and fishing season has opened up for them.  We camped in a campground just west of Seward and spent the evening talking with a couple that had come up from Homer to go fishing.

We awoke to another pretty good morning and packed up to head out to go back toward the Alaska Highway.  We passed boat after boat headed for Seward, I thought Anchorage would be empty when we went back through but the traffic was still pretty heavy going through there.  By the time we got to Wasilla and turned east to head back up to the Alaska Highway the weather was changing and it looked like rain was going to be in our future.  It did sprinkle on us a bit and rained all around us.  We escaped the downpours and arrived at a great campground just west of Glenallen where I am posting this update.

Tomorrow we will be heading off toward Haines/Skagway, hopefully the weather will hold but so far it looks like rain!!