Day 2

Kenai Fjord National Park, Seward Alaska


Today we took a small boat glacier and National Park tour with a stop at Fox Island for supper. They advertised that we would see glaciers, whales, seabirds, stellar sea lions and sea otters.....they did not disappoint!

Bald Eagle

Bald Eagle and his prey

Sea Otter

Bald Eagle our National Bird

Spire Cove

Sea Cave

Puffin

Spire Cove

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Stellar Sea Lions

Land Locked Glacier

Panoramic

Sea Kayaker

Glacier Spires

Aialik Glacier

Yes, they really do look blue

Calving Glacier

Iceberg

Calving Glacier

Orca

Glacier Ice

Now to see the  whale, you have to put the next three pictures together

The Blow

The Hump

The Tail 

Sea Lions

Harding Ice Field

Fox Island

The was at the fishing boat port in Seward.  That's one big filleted Halibut

Tomorrow we are headed to Homer

Day 1

Good morning.... We have made it.  We arrived in Anchorage on Saturday, picked up the rental and headed to Seward. I was expecting jet lag to kick in on Sunday, but by 8 pm we were ready for bed.  We stopped in Indian, Alaska at the Brown Bear Saloon and had Reindeer Dogs for lunch.  Great little bar with autographed dollar bills from their guest.  Of course we had to put one up from Mebane, NC.  Next door was the liquor store.  As you can see, Jim's packed all of your needs into one stop...liquor, panties and hard core Alaskan gifts. 

Sunday we are taking a National Parks Glazier Tour of the Kenai Pennisula.

Hello All,

Looks like you found your way here.  We will be posting each night that we have internet. You can add comments to the post if you want.  Thanks for traveling along with us.

Countdown to Alaska

The countdown is on.... Leaving Saturday, August 26 and flying into Anchorage Alaska for 12 days.  Stay tuned.  No we are not taking the motorcycle.......I know.....I know.....unheard of for us.

Summer 2012 is fast approaching!!

Where o where will we go next? 


Turn up your speakers and check out the tunes!!

Final Day

We are home, safe and sound. We traveled from Carlisle, Arkansas to Asheville, North Carolina yesterday and stayed the night with Mark's cousins, the Tickle's. That left us only 200 miles today. The North Carolina Welcome sign was a welcome indeed and the Blue Ridge Mountains were a sight for sore eyes. They aren't the biggest we've seen, but they sure were pretty. Mark teased me in Burlington and said we were going to ride down to Carolina Beach to make it a coast to coast trip, but I knew he would not drive past Miss Emma.

We stopped and picked up a cheeseburger and milkshake for Miss Emma and I think she was as happy to see us as we were her. We are going to spend the rest of the day catching up on dog kisses and hugs.

Thanks to all for tagging along on our trip. We enjoyed all of the comments and emails while traveling and this blog turned out to be a wonderful way for everyone too keep up with us and know we were safe each evening.

We were blessed with good weather, a mechanically sound motorcycle, beautiful scenery, Mark's excellent motorcycling skills and the trip of a life time.

We have tons of pictures to share and we'll try to pick an evening when we can all get together and catch up.

A BIG THANKS goes out to Betsy, Patti, Bobby, Judy and Keith for taking care of Miss Emma, looking out after the house and keeping the yard mowed. We could not have taken this amount of time off without great friends and neighbors looking out for us.

Big Hugs from Mebane!!

Day 20

We made it another 580 miles today and are currently in Carlisle, Arkansas, which is about 100 miles west of Memphis. No detours or pictures, just still zipping our way back home, with only 810 miles left to go.

Mark loves Memphis, so we might find ourselves on Beale Street tomorrow for brunch.

Hopefully the mountains of Tennessee will be cooler as it has been hot today, but nowhere near as hot as Needles, CA.

Off to supper!!