7/29/2009 What Is THAT????

We had plans of going to Whittier. We changed those plans due to weather. It was going to be a dry camping time for us in Whittier and with the rain predicted Bob just didn't want to have to deal with going out to keep putting gas in the generator so we had electricity, and he wasn't going to fishing, so we figured what was the point? So here we are in Anchorage. We're back on the Army Post.

Here we have full hook ups and all the conveniences we could possibly want. It works for ME us.

Once again the day started out gray and drizzly.

The further we drove north the better it looked.

We took notice that in this section of Alaska one could travel by roadway, railway or by sea....all side by side.

We saw glimpses of BLUE SKIES! Then we saw this big, bright, yellow thing in the sky! We didn't know if we should go run and hide or what! Then it registered, it was that thing we haven't seen in a quite awhile. The sun!

It didn't take us long to get to Anchorage as we were only about a hundred miles away to begin with. The Ft. Richardson FamCamp doesn't take reservations so we drove in with a hope of them having an opening. Luckily, they did.

After getting set up we decided to go to the Iditorad Dining Facility on the air base next door. (The two bases are connected and we can go back and forth freely) What a good meal we had! Neither one of us had eaten anything so far today so we went with good appetites. We each had the BBQ pork chop, two veggies, corn bread, salad bar, drinks and dessert for a total of $13.68 for the two of us. The meal was tasty, the salad bar fresh and the surroundings very nice! We'll be going back there again so I'll take the camera next time.

As I mentioned we are connected to an Air Force Base so this was a common sight. It appears they are flying so low because they are! We are close to the runway.

The sun doing its darndest to come back out again!

So it was a moving day but we just didn't move to where we thought we were going. It happens.