spring and fall at the pad

You can see the water tank in the background. It's pretty and green now.

Here you can see what fall has done. We have a little snow for the moment and no green or flowers.

I did mention Paul's new truck. Here's a picture before we drove it through the mud and snow. It was shiny and clean, now it looks like everybodyelse's dirty truck in Alaska, Ha, Ha

A little snow story

Here are a couple snow stories for you. Above you can see some of the damage done to our tow bar attached to the under-belly of the RAV4. We hit a sudden deep frost heave on the highway in the Yukon that it broke the welds on the tow plate. We had to 'gently' tow the car, with Paul driving it, 15 miles in the dark to the motel. Then we had to detatch it and drive the truck and car separately to Homer (600 miles)

Here you can barely see a moose in my back yard before sunrise. You can see knick-knacks inside the windowsill. She was lying there being covered with snow and I hardly saw her lying on the ground. She stood up, looked around for a little while and finally wandered off behind the trees in the background. You gotta be careful wandering around outside in Alaska.

The lost 2+ weeks

Yes that's LOST not Last. We have been flying so fast the last 5 weeks since we left Alaska that I haven't had time to blog, Sorry.
We have made such record time from Las Vegas and Hurricane to Alaska that I'm having Jet-lag. We made it over the border into Canada (at Lethbridge, south of Calgary) late Friday night. By 8pm Monday we exited Canada and arrived in our home state of Alaska (that's 1850 miles), Hooray!!!

The weather has been mostly dry and the last 500 miles has been sunny. It's was below zero degrees for a little distance and it got up to 36 above once today. There were quite a few critters on the road at night (moose, elk, deer, bison) but today we only saw a momma moose and her twins. OOOOH, yesterday I saw a gi-normous gray owl (looked like a 5 foot wing span). He had just swooped down and caught something and was winging his way back up into the trees. WOW, right next to the road, what a sight.

Well, if the weather holds we will be in Anchorage Tuesday to buy studded tires and a new battery for the car (it's about 5 years old and getting tired) then on to Homer

I'll post pictures when I unpack enough to find my USB cable from the camera to the computer, sorry.

The furniture is on the move

well, as you can see, we got the container full of our furniture picked up and headed towards Homer, Alaska.














It was a real trick to get the truck and crane up my dad's driveway.
The container will arrive in Anchorage about Monday, Oct. 22nd. It's going to beat us by more than a week.

















We should be droping off the motorhome in Costa Mesa that same day before starting out drive thru Utah and Canada.

The trip from Border City,Ak to Paradise, CA in 5 days

This is one of the things that slows the trip down.


The views were different this time of year. In the spring everything is green but in the fall you can get the distinction between evergreens and deciduous trees. It was an ever changing scenery.









This is also a common sight on the road from Alaska.
These two hunters got their 2 caribou.

Home Sweet Homer

This is it, our new home in Homer, Alaska.













It's right in town and it's 2 bedrooms 2 baths. TINY lot but tons of flowers and nice neighborhood.
Come on up and see us sometime!

Clouds or snow?

This was fun to look at. We couldn't tell where the clouds ended and the glaciers began.