On the ferry

 We come to you live from the Alaska Marine Ferry Kennicott. (I mean we have cell service here)

It’s Monday morning and we’re in Ketchikan for a stop over. We haven’t seen any whales yet. The weather was rainy with rolling seas yesterday. 

We got a small cabin and it’s quite comfortable. 

The option to camp and not pay for a cabin exists. These two moved inside when the rain started. 

We brought food for snacking but we eat dinner in the cafeteria. It’s fair. We had soup, salad , burgers and fish & chips. 

We just got off and walked 5 miles in the huge parking lot. They won’t let us go off the property because of COVID. 

We saw an eagle. Juneau tomorrow. 

Washington State

  

Washington 

We had a nice, albeit long drive from Jackson Hole to Burlington, Washington on May 13th. 

We’ve eaten some good food on this trip, pizza, burgers, salads, salmon and Mexican food. 

We listen to audible books as we drive. It sure helps pass the time, and makes us smarter than staying at a Holiday Inn Express.

This was a huge piece of farm equipment we drove past. A lot of two lane roads through Idaho and some of Oregon.

The weather sure has improved over the week.

 

The top two pics are in the Cascades National Park 

We get on the ferry tomorrow, Saturday and will have no WiFi for 5 nights. When the ferry stops in Juneau and Ketchikan we will have cell service only for a few hours.

We did a bit of grocery shopping so we don’t have to eat all of our meals from the ferry cafeteria. Years ago, the State of Alaska closed all the bars aboard the ferries, so there has to be an adequate supply of beer and wine as well.

We’ve driven nearly 2500 miles since we left Texas. The new truck performed really well, especially through all the mountains and in the nasty weather. We feel good about having that truck up in Alaska, for everything it will have to cope with up there

Jackson Hole, Wyoming

The drive from Fort Collins to Jackson was an adventure. It snowed off and on the whole 473 miles. Les did great driving but it was more drama than we'd like.

Wildlife sightings: one buffalo, 2 badgers a few hours a part from each other and a few antelope and deer.

We woke to sunny skies albeit 40 degrees. We drove into the park and tried to see the Tetons but alas the clouds won. We had a lovely drive and went north to Yellowstone's south entry but it isn't open yet.

The water is so clear, every scene looks like a post card.

Today in the park the only wildlife we saw was a herd of buffalo and some white tailed deer from pretty far away. We were really searching too.

 

 Estes Park, Colorado

 

The obligatory picture at the sign 

Rocky Mountain Nation Park is beautiful even covered with snow.

We lucked out and saw mule deer, white tailed deer, elk and moose.

 

We're Building A House in Alaska! 2021

 

Our Alaskan Adventure

2021 

(I can't get the newest post to show first, please scroll down to see newer posts)

If you leave a comment please sign it. Blogger doesn’t show who they’re from. Thanks

We're going to build a summer home in Homer, Alaska.

In 2020, during the pandemic, we purchased 5 glorious acres in the eastern part of Homer  

The pictures above are
the location of the property with brilliant views of Kachemak Bay and the Homer Spit. 

The 2 pics above are us picking up the living furniture we bought in Dallas. We'll be driving our new Ford 250 pick-up truck to Bellingham, Washington. We are taking the Alaska State Ferry to Whittier, AK on Saturday, May 15th. We've purchased a cargo trailer and filled it with floor tile, furniture, and loads of household goods.

We left North Texas on Friday, May  7th, 2021 and slept one night in Raton, New Mexico

and two nights in Fort Collins where we had dinner with our cousin Mike and his

wife Diane. It was so great to see them and catch up.