We woke up to a veil of white clouds shrouding the mountains around us. I’m so glad we came into Valdez yesterday so we could actually see this beautiful port. It gives new meaning to the verse; “Faith is the evidence of what is NOT seen!” We were planning on kayaking in Prince Edward Sound but due to the weather forecast we will move on, back towards Tok. I was amused by the Alaskan weather report I read yesterday on line:
“Wet & Chilly July:
July 2010 ended as the 3rd coolest and the 5th wettest since 1942. The 2010 average temp was 51.6 degrees which means it missed being the coolest on record by only 5/10ths of a degree.”
It figures… our one and only trip to Alaska is one of the coldest on record! The cold would have been easier to deal with than the rain though. It really has robbed of us some beautiful scenery. Yesterday we noticed that the leaves are even beginning to change! I feel bad for the Alaskan’s that have not had much of a summer and are going into a very long, cold winter.
When we pulled into our campground last night the lady at the counter was telling us that there are 42 guys from Valdez that are currently in the Gulf of Mexico educating them on oil spill clean up. She said they were not being received real well either. I guess they are looked at as “know-it-alls”. Unfortunately, due to experience…. They do know it all! I thought that was interesting.
Well, we will be dry camping tonight so will most likely not have internet connection. Talk to ya’ in a few days! Dan, we may get out of here without running out of the alphabet!
OK, Deb,
ReplyDeleteYou are really slipping!
What happened to starting your posts of with, "now we're in so and so"???
There is no clue in this post of where you are now, so I'm just going to make an educated guess.
You need to be very careful, because if you keep this up I will have you out of Alaska much faster than you want to be!
Okay Dan, I'm sorry. I'll try not to let that happen again.... I wouldn't want to be escorted out of Alaska against my will. Maybe we should change this blog title to "ByrdAlaska"!!
ReplyDeleteSince Dave and I are still in the wine closet I would say Byrds outnumber Bishops so I vote for a name change and a new bottle! Here's to Bruno, Cheers Bruno Byrd!
ReplyDeleteI don't want this trip to end however so I vote that Dan keeps you wandering in the wilderness for a while longer. Dan, how about moving to the greek alphabet?
Tim