ANCHORAGE

Day 87 - 2015-07-16

We made our way through LOTS of construction on The Parks Highway (AK 3) to Willow, AK.  No stops along the way today.  The weather returned to low hanging clouds and intermittent sprinkles.  The big mountain was totally socked in.  So, no need to dally.  We did, however, thank our luck stars over and over again for the great weather we had yesterday.  We stopped at the Willow Creek Resort, just north of Willow, AK where we got a campsite right on the creekside.  I spent some time fishing the creek, but it is between the king salmon run and the chum & silver run.  I didn’t expect to have any luck, and I was right.  178 (11,167).

Day 88 - 2015-07-17

On to Anchorage today.  The drive took us through Wasilla.  We took a picture of these big mountains in the background.  We think they must be in Russia.

We camped tonight at the Centennial Park Campground, a nice municipal campground on the Glenn Highway (AK 1), just before getting to Anchorage proper.  We spent the day doing errands, but on our way out of the campground, we came across a black bear and her cub in a couple of trees in the park.  Mom is pretty obvious, cub is the dark lump at the top of the tree, apparently sound asleep.

Here’s a short video of the Mom chowing down on something that must have been exceedingly good.

We went into town to look around and have dinner.  Not much to look at here, at least from what we could see.  We had fresh salmon and sampled some of the brews from the Sleeping Lady Brewery.  All good.  104 (11,271).