7/18 stopping on a wide spot on the way to Valdez

Happy 54rd anniversary to Bob and Jackie. Sorry no phone service or computer service from where we are stopped.

We didn’t get really going till after 10:30am from Palmer. We went to Safeway, Dave filled up the RV with diesel and I went to the store and stocked up on stuff. Then I went to the fuel pumps to fill up the jeep. I met Dave up down the road where he filled up with propane. Someone had said there was an RV wash before we got out of town, yea right, if your RV wasn’t taller then 102 inches, that wasn’t us.

We had a nice drive we stopped at Matanuska Glacier, drove down to the RV Park, not a good place to drive the RV through. All I’ll say is next time we see dirt road we unhook the jeep and drive down it 1st before we take the RV down. It was a rough road, I’m sure we loosened some nuts and bolts on that one. Anyway, we got to the bottom and to drive to the glacier and spend the night was going to be over $60. we just  unhooked the jeep and drove to the glacier and walked around on it. Didn’t have the right kind of shoes to really walk on the glacier and didn’t want to risk falling and breaking a hip so we just walked a little and got lots of pictures. Luckily that only cost us $30 but we still had to rehook up the jeep and drive back up that bad road, which I’m sure knocked out some more nuts and bolts.

We drove a little bit farther until we got to a wide spot in the road to call it a day. Mendeltna Creek, what a nice spot. Couldn’t sit outside because of the mosquitoes but across the street a little ways down was a lodge and cabins. We watched a movie, “no roads for men” stupid then walked over to the lodge. What a great lodge, really out of the way, don’t advertise but really neat inside. Decorated great friendly owners, really a neat place. 3 people came in and ordered 2 six packs of beer and a bottle of vodka $75 that tells you how expensive alcohol is here. Canada is even worse.

After leaving the lodge we came back and cooked some salmon, relaxed and watched some programs I had recorded then off to bed. Tomorrow is Valdez.