Days 17-19 / Aug. 15 - 17

Hi again! We’ve spent the past three nights in Anchorage. Drove up here from Healy on Thursday and checked into a rather sketchy looking Wyndham Ramada. After seeing the room - burnt out light bulbs, no Kleenex, no TP, strange hairs on the bathroom floor (and other suspect cleanliness) plus a weird intermittent rattling from the floor heater - we turned around, went back down stairs and asked for a refund which the desk attendant gave us with no argument. Dave said he must be pretty used to guests wanting to leave by now! We sat in the truck looking up likely accommodations and found the cutest little hotel recently renovated right on the edge of downtown. One of the owners checked us in and helped carry our luggage to the room. Very clean, new carpeting and original artwork on the walls from a local. It’s within walking distance of some good restaurants and shopping. Yesterday, Dave took the truck to the Toyota dealer for its 10,000 mile check up and oil change while I rested and did some painting. Today, we drove to Seward along the Cook Inlet and went to the Alaska Sea Life Center and got to see lots of sea critters and look out over the Gulf of Alaska. We’ll be leaving in the morning to go back to Tok, then Whitehorse and we’ll maneuver down to Vancouver Island. 

Statue down town Anchorage 
Downtown Anchorage 
Anchorage gift shop
View of downtown
Dave walking in the rain to dinner our 1st night
Breakfast at Snow City Cafe - highly recommended but a long wait
Excellent dinner at Orso’s last night 
Dave’s tiramisu 
Portage Glacier on the way to Seward
View on Seaward Highway 
Seaward Highway 
Water fall in Seward
A first for me - a doggy selection on the menu!





That’s the Gulf of Alaska behind us
A seal they’re caring for who has neurological issues so will never get to go back to the wild
View on the way back to Anchorage 
Inside the Sea Life Center 
On the way back to Anchorage

Painted bear near the visitors center downtown 

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