It will definitely take us a while, but we are on the return path to home with unbelievable sights, wonderful adventures and new friends under our belts. That’s not to say that we won’t have more of the same before we pull into the driveway in Minden.
After our second halibut fishing charter out of Ninilchik, we picked up our frozen fish on Wednesday, August 1 and headed back to Kenai. We needed the generator the last two nights but the battery was dead, dead. So we strung an extension cord to a plug in at our fishing charter yard where we stayed two nights. Connie and I are smelling propane so I turned off both tanks and called ahead in Kenai to have a mobile RV repairman come to the RV park to see if he can fix it. We stopped at a big and beautiful Honda dealership to get a new battery for the generator, but this is Alaska so we will wait until Anchorage and see if we can find one there.
We pulled into an RV park in Kenai to clean up after no heat or hot water for two nights and saw one of the couples from our tour pull into the park. After the RV repairman fixed our propane regulator, we went to their rig for wine. However, these folks are from West Virginia and tempted Connie with homemade moonshine, hooch, white lightnin’, whatever you want to call it. They didn’t have to tempt her very long and had a little sippin’ get-together from the ole mason quart jar. After 2 glasses of wine and that hooch, I had to pour her into the truck to go back to the trailer and then poured her onto the couch. She slept in her clothes that night.
The RV park we stayed at was a family owned farm of sorts with all kinds of animals and horses to rent. We heard there were 2 bald eagle fledglings still in the area so we went in search. We found one still in the nest working up his courage and the second one in a tree quite a ways from the nest, wondering how’d I get here and what do I do now? We got some pretty good pictures. Connie climbed through the four-strand barb wire fence to photo the brave child.
We left Kenai once again, and headed northeast to Cooper Landing still on the Kenai Peninsula, to visit Alaska Horsemen, a place I have heard of and wanted to see. It is a pack outfit that guides rides up in the Alaska Wilderness from a 1/2 day to a week or more. I wanna go back and pack in with them someday………. someday.
The mountains around the pack outfit are so dramatic and still have snow on them. I bet the snow starts again before the old snow melts completely. It was a beautiful day when we got there and we dry-camped on their property for free. So relaxing.
Next, we are off in the morning to Seward, which is on the coast. Just to see what we can see and besides, we probably won’t be this close again.
Connie’s lesson for this go-around: “I’ve learned so much from my mistakes, I’m thinking of making a few more”.
Poor Connie...that moonshine is not to be trifled with! lol Even with the bumps in the road, you two are having quite a time.
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