We’ve left the Mat-Su Valley. We finished off the Parks Highway, continued south on the Glenn Highway, and hung a left for the Seward Highway. We left the Seward Highway after Portage with a right on the Hope Highway. And here we are, settled in for a couple nights on the Kenai Peninsula.
It was a scenic drive.
There would be even more scenery without the forest fire smoke, but the 100,000 acre Swan Lake Fire right in the middle of the Kenai Peninsula is only 14% contained, so we don’t expect a major clear-up anytime soon.
Where the river meets the sea.
It sounds charming, but out on the mud flats the river channel can be a little mucky at low tide.
No phone, no pool, no pets. Well, not exactly. We get good Verizon phone and internet around the big cities. We don’t get any satellite television though. Last time I put up the dish it kept looking down at the ground trying to find the assigned satellites. They seem to be below the horizon here. There might be an Alaska package for Dish Network, but we’re not on it. It’s a quiet television summer for us. That should help us go to bed earlier at night, but so far that’s not happening. We sit up talking until it gets dark, then realizing it’s not going to get dark, we just go inside and go to bed late. The only television thing we miss is we’re not getting any Formula 1 races.
The Jeep isn’t getting Sirius Radio either. Maybe we’d have to get an Alaska Package for that too that had a satellite it could see from here.
The Great 2019 Alaska Trip map
The Alaska portion of the trip
4,420 miles to Sandpipers.
