Alaska – The Plan

We arrive in Anchorage on Thursday near midnight. Cousin Tom will pick us up at the airport. We will head to Tom’s place in Palmer, home of the giant cabbage. We may not be able to partake in Tom’s adventure as the spring has been unusually cold and the boat isn’t in the water. That is just fine; I know there are a million and one hikes alone just outside his door. We hope to cook a nice dinner for our host and just hang out. Maybe visit his garden.

We head back to Anchorage on Monday to pick up our camper. It is suppose to be a truck with a camper queen bed and kitchen and bathroom. We have requested a cd player, cross your fingers for us.

First stop south to the Kenai Peninsula. From what we’ve read the best 127 miles of campgrounds and hiking trails, totally undeveloped and without services! The drive from Phoenix to LA is quite like that, but without the campgrounds and hiking and a total pain in the ass. We’ll arrive in Seward when we get there; leaving enough time to do much of the following prior to Friday morning mid-day.

Take a long boat trip out to see Kenai Fjords National Park.
See Exit glacier
Spend some time in a bar in Homer

Friday Morning at the latest:
Take a 6 hour ferry from Whittier to Valdez across Prince William Sound. The ferry stops for wildlife and a picnic at an island.

Time permitting, kayaking in Prince William Sound with god willing orcas! Can you imaging kayaking near a whale?

From Valdez we will drive the 8 hour trip to Denali National Park. On Saturday we have to pick up our tour tickets for Sunday’s 6-8 hour guided bus tour of Denali National Park.

Weather permitting we may skip the Prince William Sound trip and go back to Palmer for Tom’s trip which includes a flight seeing tour and kayaking.

Also weather permitting we may do a flight seeing tour of Mt. McKinley

We need to be back at the airport by 6ish on Tuesday.

I can’t wait to post what we actually did, with PICTURES!!! I can take 900 pictures!

We hope to hike every single day we are traveling and hopefully see lots of amazing beauty and wildlife.