July 26th

So we moved on from Soldotna and traveled the familiar road of the Sterling Highway. It was cold, cloudy, rainy, and dreary again today. We left Riverside Terrace around noon with a hug from Gary,the owner, and a very warm invitation from Tim & Don,office workers, to return next year! We stopped at Fred Meyers which is like Walmart, bought food for the road and then we were on our way.

It's unfortunate that we could not see the mountains surrounding us because it is one of the most beautiful stretches of road we have been on. After about 40 miles we turned to the south on the Seward Highway. The heavy clouds were covering the tops of the mountains all around us and even hung into the crevices that they created. Either sun shine or clouds... the mountains are a beautiful place. The road wound around the base of these giants until we reached the end of the road in Seward. It is so odd to see avalanche signs when the ocean is less than 6 feet away. The mountains literally drop into the ocean. As do the waterfalls! As we drove the road with mountains on one side and ocean on the other there were waterfalls gushing from above us. It is definitely not as interesting as Homer, but is a quaint little village by the sea. There are some interesting places we would like to visit before leaving here so we booked our campground for 2 nights at the "Stoney Creek Campground" and we are settled in for the night. We experienced our first thunderstorm tonight. It was awesome. This place is very nice. We have a river that runs behind our camper, which Gary is going to check out for fish tomorrow, and there are trees and mountains all around us. It's much quieter, other than the train whistle in the distance and an airstrip that lands small aircraft in town.

Questions have risen about whether Bruno is still with us or not. Some of you believe we may have left the poor fellow behind somewhere. Well the pictures should prove that good 'ol Bruno is still with us and has been making himself more comfortable on our couch these days, as you can see. Gary calls that the "deadliest catch". He even was brazen enough to create a road dedicated to himself here in Seward! He has become a bold bear!

Dan, if you are going to be a "blog brother" you need to abide by the blog boundaries. You can not give away locations until we have actually arrived at them, otherwise, you could escort us out of Alaska to save yourself from running out of letters. Try to refrain from further actions in the future.