Sam And Saundra's Year Long Adventure - Part 138

Sam and Saundra’s Year Long Adventure – Part 138

Alaska

6/27/09 – Valdez, Alaska

Today is a rest day.  I clean the trailer.  Sam works on the outside of Brutus and the trailer.  We shop, buy some crab, visit the Valdez Glacier, pick up some glacier rock at the glacier lake with … icebergs, just below Valdez Glacier.  To get there, we only had to go to Valdez, turn right (left would have put us in the sound) and drive about 2 miles.  Just past the Glacier State Campground and there it is.  Not a big climb or anything.  Up above is the glacier and down below it the glacier lake. 

Valdez Glacier

We are told that they get 500+ inches of snow fall on Valdez at sea level in a normal year.  Lots. We return to the trailer and I spend a lot of time doing little.  Sam does the same, except he has access to the internet and I don’t.  Yes that was envy – but I am working on it.  Sam worked on his street bike and went out and used the extensive paths the town has made.  More than ‘meals on wheels for bears’.  The view outside is stark raving wonderful.  We eat King and Dungeness crab until we are ready to burst. Then it is time for more rest. 

Down Town Valdez