Beautiful day in our favorite campground. Here are two pictures of our site.
The day started at 47 degrees and breezy. What a wonderful time to be camping! Because we determined that it was quite chilly outside, I started home made bread and stew for lunch. Nearly 4 hours later they were both ready for eating. This time the bread came out quite well and we were pleased. My "peasant bread" recipe is one I used often in Virginia and it seems to work well at lower altitudes (it’s around 2,000 ft here). (At 7,500 ft in Colorado, this recipe is a disaster!)
Cody and Molly spent most of the day curled up with each other sleeping. I think they knew it was cold outside.
By mid-afternoon the temperature had risen to 52 degrees. That was the high point for the day. Because it wasn’t raining, I decided that we should take a hike. After a short walk Robert’s hip began to bother him so I took him back to the rig. I continued for another hour plus, mostly looking for moose or bear. The woman at the registration desk had told me that they had seen both bear and moose in camp in the past week, but I was not successful in finding either.
In the early evening we decided to build a campfire. This is really the perfect campfire weather. The temperature is around 50 degrees and the breeze is strong from one direction (here the south west). That means that campers appreciate the warmth of the fire and the wind keeps blowing in the same directions os we don’t have to keep moving to stay out of the smoke.
I started at the fire with one of the silver "emergency" blankets around my legs. Soon I decided that the silver blanket didn’t provide much insulation so I opted for our picnic blanket. We have a wonderful picnic blanket – it is fleece on one side and tough "duck" cloth on the other. It effectively blocks the wind and provided warmth where I needed it.
While we were at the fire our next door neighbor stopped by. They are from Quebec and are driving a class C. They were most interested in where they could clean their rig (we referred them to Eagle’s Rest RV in Valdez). They also told us that they were most sorry that they had brought their bicycles – attached to their hitch. They reported that they had ridden only once but that the bicycles had been a pain on more occasions. (Ferries) More information to process. ... We decided not to bring our bicycles and I guess that was the right decision. Anything extra eventually gets to be a pain to transport. We currently are carrying extra cat crates and an extra cat litter box that we would gladly ship home – but that’s not easy.... (I guess that’s not fair – we each are probably carrying extra stuff but we only focus on the extra stuff that the fur-kids have. We all have surplus stuff! We learn as we travel – there are a few things I wish I’d brought and many things I wish I’d left at home. Unfortunately the lessons from one trip don’t translate to the next. The weather in Alaska is likely very different from our planned next trip in the southern states in winter.
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