Now, call it Dumb Luck or something...but we saw THE MOUNTAIN ( Mt.McKinley or Denali and some call it) on the first day we got here! We met people who had been here six days, waiting to get a view. There was a tour (Buses filled like sardine cans) to drive all day, into the park, to get a better view (if you were lucky), but we didn't want to be gone that long. It is pretty fabulous....20,000 feet tall! We drove a little down the road to see if we could get a better view, but when we stopped for the night, it was engulfed in clouds.We spent the night at the South viewpoint of Denali National Park, but the mountain was never to be seen again. They say that out of 105 days of summer, it is usually only seen about 5 days!
From there, we headed to Anchorage, with a stop at Wasilla to eat at McDonald's and call our former Hummer Club President, Linda North, to see if she was home.(she lives here)....but she was down in the "lower 48". We made it to town, but there are NO RV parks with any vacancies!
Jimmy decided to drive through town, all the way to the water's edge, to see where we could dry camp. After meandering through town, getting lost on smaller and smaller streets, fearing that we would have to unhook the Hummer and back out of the neighborhood....he lucked out and found a road that lead us back to the local park.
After parking there for awhile, to get our plan figured out. We pulled out, and some kids that were playing soccer, kicked the ball, right under us....I didn't know that happened, I just saw Jimmy cringe hit the brakes and heard a loud POW! I thought "Great, another tow bar just broke", but one of the kids just picked up the ball behind us, and put it on his head....like a hat! ha!ha! poor kids!
After trying the Fred Meyer parking lot (it was packed with RVs), we drove South in town, to the Wal-Mart. Several Rvs were parked there...but there were signs everywhere...NO OVERNIGHT PARKING! Sure enough, a little security guard came and ran us off...but said the Sam's, across the street would let us park there. So that is where we are now. Don't know if I'll be able to access internet or not for the next few days, but we plan to be here until tomorrow, going to the Kenai on Friday, then Seward on Sunday. I'll post, if I can.