Anchorage, AK

After a quiet night’s rest in the wilds of Alaska at a primitive state campground, we decided to find breakfast on the road at the next small town. Sutton, Alaska was only 30 miles away and our Alaska Camping book mentioned a general store and café. We have found many country cafes serve good local breakfast so I was excited for good food. After we pulled in we noticed it wasn’t much of a place and our first impression was not wrong. When you enter a cafe and can’t smell food cooking you should quickly leave. We did a U-turn and entered the general store to make it look like we intended to make this stop. We looked around, bought nothing and left in a cloud of dust. We drove on to Palmer and found a nice coffee shop/café and enjoyed a nice breakfast burrito and coffee. The burrito was so large half of it will be breakfast tomorrow. 

In the Alaska Camping book, we found two campgrounds in Anchorage so we decided to stay here for a night. Remember we need the stop at Costco! One site was a government campground with only power. The other was a commercial park advertising that Costco was across the street. We needed laundry so the commercial park won. Shopping and laundry filled our afternoon so rest was not to be had. In the evening Karen suggested I call our daughter in Seattle to say hi. By the end of the conversation we had managed to talk her into jumping on a plane and flying up here to join us for a week. It didn’t take much coaxing for her to accept. I think she was ready for a vacation. Little does she know it will be a bit more rustic than her normal trips. We told Charlie she was coming to see him and he sat at the door waiting for her to show up. We need to not give him so much info that far in advance. He will be very excited to see her tonight and so will we. This will be fun. We will head down the Kenai Peninsula and find some beauty to enjoy. This being a three-day Memorial Day weekend may add a bit of a challenge. We will see. We are spending a second day in Anchorage waiting for Stacey to arrive so a restful day is planned. Time for window washing, house cleaning and some fun in the sun. Seventy-two degrees and sunny today: most people don’t come to Alaska to work on their tan!

Views along the Glenn Highway towards Anchorage: