July 19; There is Blue Sky Somewhere!

We ran out of the rain almost to Glenallen on the Richardson Hwy at the end of the Glenn Hwy (Richardson Hwy goes from Fairbanks to Valdez). The blue sky looked so beautiful!
On the Glenn Hwy we traveled for a long time along the Matanuska River. It was at points a raging river because of all the rains. These pictures are from the Alaskan Wildlife Museum in Glenallen. Not a big museum, but an
awesome & lifelike display of animals.
Wolves attacking a moose. These pictures are from the Alaskan Wildlife Museum in Glenallen.

Isn't this a rough way to start the day?????
Having dinner with "neighbors" in the campground last night. They cooked their salmon and we brought the pasta, salad, tartar sauce. Ate way too much salmon. I loooooooved the deep fried and artery clogging Salmon. In case you haven't figured out yet from the blogs, the salmon are running....people are going crazy about it here.
Using the grill, that Christopher gave us for Christmas, to cook the salmon; worked like a charm
more pics from the Wildlife museum. Didn't the guy do great taxidermy and display????
These pictures are from the Alaskan Wildlife Museum in Glenallen

Friday 7-18; leaving Wasilla and driving to Copper River area

When we left Karen’s house at 7:30 a.m. it was raining and 48 degrees. We traveled along the Glen Highway to Glenallen. It’s the road we traveled to Karen’s house in Wasilla several weeks ago, but, like coming down the “Haul Road” from Prudho Bay, it’s a whole new view from the other direction. Just as beautiful and seeing sights that I hadn’t seen the first time through. We traveled along the Matanuska river and it was still raining. The river was really loud and had white water on it; wouldn’t have wanted to be on it today.
We’ve been here in Alaska over a month now: a week at Karen’s home in Wasilla, a week on the Kenai Peninsula, 5 days on the Dalton Hwy…and various other places hither, thither & yon. It’s been a month of fun. AND, today the sun returned at noon when we got to Glenallen and it was 58 degrees; just beautiful. We went in an Alaskan Wildlife Museum. One person hunted and got all of the animals in the museum; then he “taxidermied” them himself and mounted them in realistic displays of predators and their prey. You could just see the action. I took loads of pictures, several of which I’m sharing with you in this blog
We drove through historic Copper Center on the Copper River. We then looked for the lodge where Therese and Cecelia will be arriving at tomorrow evening. We’ll have dinner with them there.
We are staying at the King for a Day Campground; and our spot is right on the Klutina River. Positively spectacular. People are fishing just feet from us for red salmon.
We are having dinner tonight with our camping neighbors; they are cooking their salmon, and we are providing the fix’ins, my home made tartar sauce, salad & dressing and an alfredo noodles. Was fun sitting right on the banks of the river and eating….a bit of a stormy looking cloud sat in the distance, and we asked God for our blessing to not let it rain. And sure enough, the dark cloud stalled there for several hours and later broke up. Had a wonderful evening of salmon (some deep fried and some grilled on the fire) and polished off some wine w/ the neighbors. We kind of turned into pumpkins at 11. It’s weird with it staying light for so long at night. You don’t think about going to bed because it stays light until midnight or so.
Today, Saturday the 19th, we’re going to kick around in this “horrible” place on the bank of the Klutina River, read, take Tommy for walks, etc…and then later go and meat Ceil and Theresa at the Princess Lodge, close to here. We’ll have dinner with them there.
So, until we “connect” again…