Up at the crack of dawn, really there isn't any dawn here, just lighter shades of pale. We wanted to get on the road as it is a fairly long 8 hour drive. The "Silver Bullet" as I have christened the van , cruises at 55mph, after that petrol consumption goes meteoric. Most of the roads have a 55 limit but some go to a heady 65 - I don't know how the yanks can cope with such enormous speeds!
Eileen got attacked by some ferocious wee insect called "No-see-ums", great name but the wee buggers gave her some nasty facial bites and her right eye nearly closed.
Leaving Seward at 09.00 in light rainfall, our first since leaving home, we had an OK drive to Anchorage. After that it got incredibly tiresome with tree lined roads and no decent views, Fern and I take 90 minute driving spells as it is hard to keep concentration when it is so bl&*$£ boring. We passed through Sarah Pallin's home town of Wasilla which looked like an extremely weird place, we had a picnic there in a filthy public park with locked "washrooms" - must send her some pics when I return.
As we approached Denali, which is Mt. McKinley's other name, the weather improved considerably and reached 19 degrees with bright sunshine, mind you it is 22.30 just now and we still have bright sunshine. Eileen has got her balaclava on back to front to help her sleep - seems to be working. We went for a short walk round our wee cabins and saw some rafting on the Nenana.
Only a few pics today as it was really tedious............
Eileen got attacked by some ferocious wee insect called "No-see-ums", great name but the wee buggers gave her some nasty facial bites and her right eye nearly closed.
Leaving Seward at 09.00 in light rainfall, our first since leaving home, we had an OK drive to Anchorage. After that it got incredibly tiresome with tree lined roads and no decent views, Fern and I take 90 minute driving spells as it is hard to keep concentration when it is so bl&*$£ boring. We passed through Sarah Pallin's home town of Wasilla which looked like an extremely weird place, we had a picnic there in a filthy public park with locked "washrooms" - must send her some pics when I return.
As we approached Denali, which is Mt. McKinley's other name, the weather improved considerably and reached 19 degrees with bright sunshine, mind you it is 22.30 just now and we still have bright sunshine. Eileen has got her balaclava on back to front to help her sleep - seems to be working. We went for a short walk round our wee cabins and saw some rafting on the Nenana.
Only a few pics today as it was really tedious............
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