June 24 - Valdez to Anchorage

We woke up this morning to cloudless blue sky and glorious sunshine. What a DAY!! We packed up camp and headed back to Potatoheads for breakfast and then we started our trek to Anchorage. We retraced our steps back up to Glenallen, had lunch at the Fireweed Cafe again and then drove the Glenn Highway back through the outskirts of Palmer and into Anchorage. We found the (?) Creek RV Park and Campsite right on the edge of town, about a 2 minute drive to downtown. With limited time, we tend to pick central RV sites when we can so we spend less time commuting and more time seeing the sights even though you end up dealing with some of the challenges of urban camping.

Well - turns out there were a few challenges here. First of all, this RV campsite, while quite nice and with a lot of greenspace, is in a fairly dodgy part of town so it's not the most appealing place to make your way in to or out of. Lots of derelict neighbourhoods and drug dealers on streetcorners. Second, it is right beside the railroad tracks and the trains are fairly frequent plus, they seem to take great delight in blowing their horn excessively (we're convinced, anyway) because they know there is an RV park here. My husband Lynn made a comment about the loudness of the horn and I said if he was the train engineer, he would TOTALLY blow it loud and long as he went by the RV park just to wake up everyone trying to sleep and then he would LAUGH And LAUGH and LAUGH about it. Anyone who knows Lynn would absolutely agree with me, I'm sure!! Lastly, this week, the military has huge, international airforce exercises going on and they have huge F-16s and other military planes flying around and around doing formations and other manoevers, creating ear-splitting roar. Fortunately, this was over by late afternoon but for awhile there, we were thinking this was quite possibly the noisiest place we'd ever been to!

We set up camp, ate our left over Fu Kung Chinese food and hit the sack.