June 29th

Happy 1 month anniversary Kim & Tommy!!

THE DETAILS:

THE WEATHER: It started out at 55 degrees and cloudy and it was all down hill from there. The day ended with rain showers and low lying clouds.

THE DISTANCE: 20 miles


We are “crawling” along on our way to Wasilla…. But Dan, we finally made it. Yes! The home of the infamous Sarah Palin. Though it was cloudy and we could barely see the mountains in front of us Gary is convinced that you can see Russia from here on a clear day. It’s just across the ocean! Well, we weren’t able to drop in on Sarah but her dad dropped in on us!! Seriously. We checked into our campground around 6:00 pm and we were told that we were welcome to join the salmon feast that they were cooking up on the grills in the middle of the campground. So at the last minute we joined all the other campers and had sockeye salmon (red) grilled with lemon pepper or dill or brown sugar & soy sauce. Also halibut and moose ribs! It was amazing. Other campers brought the rest of the meal and we had a feast. About ½ way through the meal the guy we were sitting with said, “I’m going to get my picture taken with Sarah Palin’s dad”. Sure enough…. He was there and I took a picture of them also. Mr. Palin is on the left. We were going to ask him to pose with Bruno, but he left before we could ask.

Other than traveling, we went shopping for food, and then Walmart and then Gary picked up a spare alternator belt…. because you know you should always have a spare!! Wasilla is the largest city we’ve been to since Canada. It’s strange to be in so much traffic!

On our way through Wasilla we stopped at the Iditarod Museum. There were real sled dogs that were pulling a wagon on wheels and there were 2 puppies that were soooo cute. We watched a few minutes of a movie about the race which was incredible information. Dan, you can now post info on that. We got to talking to an older guy who was standing with the dogs and he was so knowledgeable about the race that I asked him how he knew so much. It turns out he came in 7th in the race one year and his father is the museum’s original owner. He now has 2 sons that run the Iditarod one of which came in 11th .