Glaciers

July 16 – Driving day again!  We were close to the last ones to leave the campground.  We were following our friends Dave and Donna.  We agreed we wanted to stop at the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park that was on our way.  The timing worked out great as once we parked and went in we had some time to look around and get what we wanted from the gift store and then we went next door to a movie.  It was an extremely well done movie of how vast the park is and how it came to be.  Excellent movie!  We all enjoyed the stop.

Dave suggested we have lunch while we were parked so we didn’t need to find a stopping point down the road.  Great idea so we had lunch and then we all got back on the road.

One of our other group messaged Dave that we were going to come to some road with lots of ups and down, kinda like a wave.  You just can’t find a flat straight road here!  So I was continually slowing down for the dips.  Then it was mountain crossing time!  Oh joy!  The roads were narrow with rather non-existent edges and then we were right on the edge of a lake on a curvy road.  It was another drive I could not wait to get over.  I did slip off the inside once and scared the bejesus out of Bill.

The up side of the drive is we got to see 2 glaciers.  The first was Nelchina and it was pretty far off the road but up in the mountains and the other was Matanuska, which was closer to the ground and wide and skinny.  Too bad that road wasn’t a good spot to pull over to get some nice photos.

We were the last to arrive today at our campground in Palmer.  We were expecting partial hook ups but we lucked out with a pull thru and full hook ups.  We’ve been told tomorrow night we are dry camping in a field.  Oh joy!

I finally cooked my cube steaks tonight and baked Bill a white potato and a sweet potato for me.  They are very big so we each had half and now we have potatoes ready for another meal.  I was pooped so I just made a salad to go with it!  We’ve been eating out way too much and need to get back on track!