Can't believe this view. It seems more like a winter ski

picture than July. Locals tell us this is an unusual

cool summer. 52 degrees out this morning.

Dick and I were camped at Resurrection Trail Head

about 120 miles from Homer, when it felt like someone was

attempting to pick up and shake the RV. We stared at each other...checked out our surroundings and found nothing. We

found out the next day that Anchorage had an earthquake.

Another Alaska Adventure for the Millers

Docks,fisherman and halibut. My kind of

scene.

Finally today, the sun is shining. We're

getting ready to catch the big one.

Fishing from the shore is on the agenda

today and Halibut fishing early next week

Too gorgeous for words....

OCean and mtns. Great views

We're camped at Homer Spit

Public Camp Ground. $15

a night for this scenery.

we're in the front row looking at

this ocean

Dick and I celebrating 21st Wedding Anniversary.

He always wants to lead!!!!!

Anchorage campground. Looks like

Moe has chewed up on of her favorite stuffed

animals. The cotton is actually shed from the trees

Seems like they could make t shirts or something out

of this stuff.

Flowers in Anchorage are amazing.

gardens and hanging baskets bloom

everywhere. Anchorage is Alaska's largest city

located on Cook Inlet with the Chugach mountains

in the background. Quite a site.

My favorite bear....

Our campground at South Rolly Lake. Small lakes everywhere. Great for kayaking and hiking. We enjoyed staying here for 5 nights over the 4th of July

Another view from our campsite. Can't tell whether its day or night. We've had overcast days and sunlight until after midnight, then a couple hours of darkness and the sun is up by 3 am. Can't get use to these long nights.

Dick and his horns at Denali. This park is amazing....

We're at Wasilla in the Walmart campground parked next to our friends Richard and Carol from Phoenix. Strangers in the night meet at Walmart...We knew they were traveling but hadn't known their schedule till the Walmart parking lot encounter. Enjoyed sharing travel experiences and plans for the coming weeks

Denali National Park about 6 million acres

We took the 11 hour roundtrip bus tour in to WonderLake. What a beautiful day. Some rain and a little overcast but a great day

to see critters.

We saw 8 caribou this day. These guys must have just had lunch as they were quite lazy.

A total of 7 grizzly bears. This mom was with her two cubs

romping in the meadow.

Mr moose was one of the nine we saw throughout the day.

The old grey wolf was collared for tracking purposes. We saw 5 wolves, one mom with her 3 pups. In addition 25 doll sheep, one red fox, one loon and in excess of 150 mosquitos.

This is the view from our campsite outside Denali Park. We could watch rafters as they paddled down the river and through a set of rapids. Good entertainment.

Mt McKinley in all its glory. The highest peak in North America at 20,320 feet. Nearly a thousand people a year attempt to climb this mtn.

We visited beautiful downtown Talkeetna, town of about 800

mostly vendors selling their wares to us tourists. The town is an aviation and supply base for Mount McKinley climbing expedition so we met many young hikers and climbers who were setting out

to the challenge of McKinley.

Flowers everywhere. These beautiful pansy like flowers

really caught my eye.

The Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry has

historic aircraft, railroad equipment, farm machinery and heavy equipment. We climbed all over the train and even rode in the caboose.

Dick especially liked the tractor displays. Again he's exhibiting those farm tendencies. I'm glad he didn't get out his overalls.

ARCTIC CIRCLE

We made it, 550 miles roundtrip from Fairbanks to the Arctic Circle. Travel books list this drive as a dusty minefield of potholes from football size to washtub size with blind curves and technical pitches. They weren't wrong, nor did they exaggerate. It was worth every minute of the 14 hours of driving to see the enormity of this state.

View of the upcoming road and the Alaska pipeline. The pipeline is 4 feet wide and 800 miles long stretching from Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean down to Valdez carrying about 1 million barrels of crude oil a day. .

Coldfoot, town of named after greenhorns who got 'cold feet' at the thought of wintering in this North Alaska area. We only traveled this far North to get gas for our return trip to Fairbanks.

Lucky us, we were here right after the summer solstice. During winter solstice, it would be dark for 24 hours a day .

Pioneer Park, Fairbanks

Located right in the middle of Fairbanks built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the purchase of Alaska from Russia.

Dick enjoyed the Pioneer Air Museum

Gorgeous hanging baskets of flowers were throughout the park.

Salmon so big, I had to ride it... Couldn't catch it.

Dick and his favorite bear.

Fairbanks, Alaska

Took the Discovery III, a sternwheeler on a cruise on the Chena and Tanana Rivers. This paddleboat was built in Seattle and started doing tours in 1987.

Headed out to the Tanana River, the largest glacier-fed river in the world.

The Discovery II was built on the steel hull of the last freighting sternwheeler on the Tanana and Yukon Rivers.

One of our favorite homes along the river. Many of the homes are built from the native spruce trees and have 4 or 5 paned windows for the cold Alaskan Winters.

Alaskan bush pilot in action. Amazing take off and landing on the river.

Home of the late Susan Butcher the Iditarod Champion. Susan and her dog team won the 1,100 mile Dog Sled Race from Anchorage to Nome 4 times. Her husband and daughters now manage the dog kennel and continue to raise and train dogs. Great fun seeing the puppies and older dogs interact and to have an opportunity to see a 10 dog team pull an ATV around their training track.

Reindeer sighting!!

Log cabin and display of native garments

This was a spectacular coat complete with fur trim and beading indicative of the Athabascan Indians

Dick and the fish smoker. Smoking fish in the big drum and cooking the fish remains into a stew for the dogs.

Smokehouse from the Original Chena Village used to dry salmon

Salmon drying rack.

Salmon is dried and used to feed the dogs.

Visiting the North Pole. Santa was taking a rest so I didn't get to visit with him. The tiny people in front are me and Moe.

A very busy spot, year round.

Santa's elves are making lots of toys.

Our campsite on Chena River outside of Fairbanks.

This is the view from our front window at 11pm.

Its a great time of night cause the mosquitoes are

sleeping.

Its very lush. White birch and spruce trees.

A day of kayaking. Unfortunately we had to go downstream

from our campsite and then the great paddle upstream to get home. Lots of fun as I finally got out and pulled Dick upstream and then attempted to walk my kayak upstream only to be stuck midcalf in muck and very cold muck at that. Lots of giggles and grand memories, The water looks so calm...little did we know.

Life doesn't get much better.....