Our travel from Soldotna to Eagle River took us through territory that we have already talked about, so we didn’t take many pictures. The Soldotna area, as well as the whole Kenai Peninsula and much of the rest of Alaska are in the midst of fishing season. You can imagine the aroma that would come from the garbage cans and dumpsters would be like, if everyone threw their fish parts and pieces from cleaning the fish, in them, thus, this sign.
We found this nice campsite at the Eagle River Campground in the Chugach State Park. The sites are paved, which makes it nice when it rains, which it did shortly after we arrived in the late afternoon of Thursday the 24th.
We drove the short distance to the business area of town to check where the post office was, because Ken and Emilie had sent our mail, that had accumulated over the last few weeks, to the post office here in Eagle River. We discovered that it was right next to the Carr’s/Safeway and a pizza place. Well, we accomplished several tasks in that one area that was just one mile away from camp (as the crow flies). The Alaska Pizza Co. made some tasty pizza that we took back to the trailer for dinner and the Carr’s had a gas station with diesel. for the thirsty truck, plus, we now knew where to go to pick up the mail on Friday. The fences in this area of town were decorated with cutouts of four different animals. Here are two of them. They are a mountain goat and an eagle.
We slept in on Friday morning and didn’t get the mail until afternoon, but it was sitting there waiting for us, as expected. It was raining most of the day today, so we just hung out around camp. I worked on some of my blog posts. We actually have 4G and a strong signal that is able to handle my hot spot. It is so nice to be in an area with good phone and internet connections. For the last couple weeks, even if I could get on a Wi-Fi connection, the band width did not allow me to do much other than pick up e-mail. It was just too slow or there were too many people trying to use the same connection, causing it to not work for me. Well, enough of my complaining. We did go out shopping after dinner. Other than that we took the day off.
Today, Saturday, the 26th, was spent trying to make a plan for the next part of our trip. We think that we have a general plan of what we want to see over the next couple weeks. It may need to be modified a day one way or another, but it should work. We did get to Skype with Ken and Kyra for a little while today. It was very nice seeing them. We took a walk this evening. There is a river, the Eagle River of course, that runs beside the campground. We went down to the river at about 9 PM. Like I said earlier, it is fishing season. There are many rules regarding fishing. It depends on what kind of fish, and which river and what type of fishing you are doing. I liked how the water flowed over this huge boulder in the middle of the river.
The river is flowing toward the bridge, you could see how the sunshine hit the ripples in the water.
When we got closer to the bridge, you could really see the rapids sparkle in the sun light.
Like I said, we just relaxed for the last few days. Nothing too exciting to speak of. Tomorrow, we are planning to do some sightseeing.
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