A few hodge-podge pics

Here's a few miscellaneous pictures for ya.

Day Twelve

Just to let you all know, the vacation (and the blog) has reached it's final day. It's Wednesday and we are at the Anchorage Airport awaiting our flight back home. It will be Thursday morning 5:00 am when we arrive Detroit Slum City. Thanks to all of you who followed our blog, and all who sent comments and e-mails. Congratulations to Bob & Lindsey & girls on the addition of Eli to the family! Thank you Jessie & Zarah & kids for taking care of Homer while we were gone. See you all soon. Tony, Angie, Hunter, & Maggie

Day Eleven

Today we sadly had to turn our RV in. We then walked all over town(Anchorage), did some shopping, had some meals. We had halibut and salmon chowder and a big ol' Elk Burger. Good eats. We rented some bikes in the evening and took a ten mile coastal rail trail. We're pretty whipped now and just chillin' at a hotel. Got a great view of the Chugach Mountains from here, will be sad to leave tomorrow night. ~T

Day Ten

I'll keep this short, Angie needs the computer. We headed North this morning to Portage. We took a boat tour out to get up closr to the glacier. The lake we were out on was actually created from the melting glacier. It was pretty cool but Al Gore would have had a fit with all the global warming. Later we headed back up to Anchorage and north to Palmer for dinner, camping in a pretty secluded spot by another glacier-fed river. Tony

Day Nine

We decided to stay another day at Kenai Lake. We finally got a rainy day. It was okay though as we needed some rest. We did some laundry, talked to some locals, and took a late evening hike trying to find some more wildlife, didn't see much though, just more fish. Heading uptoward Anchorage tomorrow.

Day Eight

Well we made our way back to Cooper Landing, AK and found a beautiful spot to camp on the Kenai Lake & Quartz Creek. The sockeye salmon were so thick I actually reached down and grabbed one. There were rainbow trout darting around too. Lots of privacy at this campsite. Unfortunately no bears seen here, although the host said there were a lot of problem bears this summer at the campground. Have met some very nice and/or interesting people here. Angie's giving me a hard time because I just keep talking to everybody I see. Good way to find out info. Tony

Day Seven

I think yesterday was day 7 but who knows? Well we stuck around Homer all day. We walked around the shops for a while and I decided to take a half-day halibut boat out. The half day ones just go out to a "chicken hole" (they call the smaller halibut chickens), but it still took 1 1/2 hrs each way. We fished for 3 hrs. I caught 4 but released two, as two is the limit. Halibut sells for $15 lb here, not sure what it would be in MI. Today we're not sure where we'll go. Hoping and praying the weather hold out a few more days. It's been nothing but sun the last few days. Not looking forward to leaving next week but trying not to think about it. I don't think I'll post tomorrow as we're probably staying in a more remote area tonight. God Bless, Tony