Beginning of the Journey Home
I was lucky enough to have the last site available at Bertha Creek Campground very late last night after leaving City of Hope. It was past 10 o’clock when I got ready to rest.
Woke up late after a very good night sleep, I left campground around 10:30 this morning heading back to Anchorage. Scenery along Seward Highway during daylight was much more spectacular than a couple days ago when I traveled the opposite direction in the late afternoon. But the traffic was also heavier with weekend vacationers rushing back to the city on Sunday afternoon. I made frequent stops at turnouts so the trailing vehicles could pass mine. I really missed the easy driving on Alaska Highway last couple of weeks.
Stay in Anchorage only briefly for shower and gasoline, I left around 4:30 in the afternoon; this is the beginning of my journey home. I will need to decide tomorrow when arriving at Glennallen whether to visit Valdez at South or Chicken in the North. These are two very different cities. Valdez, lies at the foot of the Chugach Mountains on the north shore of port Valdez, is known as “little Switzerland” of Alaska. And Chicken, winter population 5, is a city with no city water, sewer and electric service. I have about two and a half weeks left before home. Time is running short and regretfully I am not able to do both. I have the feeling I will come back here someday. This may be once a lifetime journey but won’t be my only journey to Alaska.
I arrived and stayed at Matanuska Glacier Campground this evening. From parking lot of the campground campers could have closer looks of the Glacier where I visited just a few days ago. Feel wonderful that I could stay a night so close to a glacier.
I was lucky enough to have the last site available at Bertha Creek Campground very late last night after leaving City of Hope. It was past 10 o’clock when I got ready to rest.
Woke up late after a very good night sleep, I left campground around 10:30 this morning heading back to Anchorage. Scenery along Seward Highway during daylight was much more spectacular than a couple days ago when I traveled the opposite direction in the late afternoon. But the traffic was also heavier with weekend vacationers rushing back to the city on Sunday afternoon. I made frequent stops at turnouts so the trailing vehicles could pass mine. I really missed the easy driving on Alaska Highway last couple of weeks.
Stay in Anchorage only briefly for shower and gasoline, I left around 4:30 in the afternoon; this is the beginning of my journey home. I will need to decide tomorrow when arriving at Glennallen whether to visit Valdez at South or Chicken in the North. These are two very different cities. Valdez, lies at the foot of the Chugach Mountains on the north shore of port Valdez, is known as “little Switzerland” of Alaska. And Chicken, winter population 5, is a city with no city water, sewer and electric service. I have about two and a half weeks left before home. Time is running short and regretfully I am not able to do both. I have the feeling I will come back here someday. This may be once a lifetime journey but won’t be my only journey to Alaska.
I arrived and stayed at Matanuska Glacier Campground this evening. From parking lot of the campground campers could have closer looks of the Glacier where I visited just a few days ago. Feel wonderful that I could stay a night so close to a glacier.
Leaving Bertha Creek Campground drving back to Anchorage. Seward Highway is more beautiful during day light.
Stop by Begich-Boggs visitor center again. The ice in the river is all melt. But the distant Portage Glacier still look beautiful.
Northbound Seward Highway
Travelers stop at view point and have good time climbing the rock.
Beautiful photo point.
Potter Mesh's interpretive sign. Here visitors can walk on boardwalk to view wildlife.
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