June 27th

THE DETAILS:

THE WEATHER: It started off raining and 50 degrees and hasn't changed all day.

THE DISTANCE: 0


Another uneventful, rainy day. We continued to stay in Talkeetna as Gary fishes the area. Last night when Gary went fishing he was prepared for everything. He left on the motorcycle with a backpack filled with fishing tackle, etc but absolutely NO food. He even took out the Jetboil and coffee! He carried the 44 in case of any bear problems. When he got to the river he was surrounded with families gathered by the river side cooking up bratwurst, children riding bikes and shoulder-to-shoulder fishing in the river with other fishermen. The river ended up being wider than anticipated and a faster current than he had prepared for. So he stayed quite a while and didn’t get anything but he learned a lot from watching others and “reading” the river. So one of the things he learned is to pull the fish in ASAP so that the splashing doesn’t attract a bear. The sound means food to Bruno’s kind. That was good to know. The size of hooks they are using are huge. The picture will indicate their size next to a quarter.

The other picture above shows our last camp ground at 12:30 at night. It didn’t even need a flash.


Due to the rain we weren't able to get to the church tonight :( .

June 26th

Since you won’t be reading this until June 27th I thought I’d remember Adam by saying Happy Birthday! The sign above was seen all across Ontario, Canada. I thought it was ironic considering we are honoring his memory by going on this trip. Did you know that the Alaskan flower is the forget-me-not.

THE DETAILS:

THE WEATHER: We have had an unusually gloomy, cloudy, drizzly day here. The temps stayed in the 60’s all day.

THE DISTANCE: ½ mile!!

Okay, well, it wasn’t exactly an action packed day. Because we were having to move campsites in the middle of the day our morning was rather slow. I drove the RV for the first time on this trip…. A ½ mile to the next campground! That’s all Gary will trust me with it. He drove the scooter over. The site here is much more like RV city and is much closer to the road but it does have a great internet connection. I spent the rest of the day working on bills and Gary went to the Montana river to see what he could catch. He’s been told that the king’s are running but another guy said the fishing hasn’t been real good this year. It’s hard to know. There’s a guide service here that will take him out to a good spot on the river and leave him there for the day and pick him up later …. all for $55.00. Not bad considering going on a boat for 4 hours at another place will cost him $160.00. That’s why he decided to try his luck on his own today. It’s now 10 pm and he’s still not back. He did try to call a little while ago and all I heard was “I’m alive” before the connection went bad. I am also posting those pictures that for some reason didn’t post last night.


DAN: I can’t believe how much information you’re finding about this trip on line. The info about the 2 campgrounds was absolutely correct. We are very close to the train tracks and yes, their whistle can be very loud, but fortunately, for me, I grew up in Acton where I would hear the train whistle in the distance at night in my bed and I thought it was the coolest sound. So now it doesn’t bother me, actually, I love to hear it.