Thursday July 19 & Friday July 20 Drive to Valdez

Thursday July 19

We decided to go ahead and pack up and drive to Valdez today. We knocked around the campground and took care of a few things and then headed out around 11. One of the challenges we had while in Seward was getting good wifi. The campground had wifi, but it was way overused. We found that the library in town had wifi and we went to use it yesterday afternoon, but again, it was overused. There was a crowd of kids in one of the rooms gaming. So we cheated this morning and sat outside the library before it opened and camped on the library wifi.

We knew that we were taking the trip to Valdez into 2 days, so we were in no hurry today. We had to go north, back thru Anchorage on a lot of the roads we already took. Stopped at a cool place along the way for lunch. Towards the end of the day of driving, we stopped at a pull-off for the night. Really nice place along a lake, between a bunch of mountains.

The weather today was clear again and highs in the lower 60's. Great day weather wise.

Friday July 20

Continued our drive to Valdez this morning. What a beautiful drive today towards Valdez. Lots of mountain views, canyons, glaciers, etc. We decided that we are going to repeat some of this drive in our jeep, so we can stop a lot more and explore.

We got a campsite at a campground in-town. We weren't planning on doing this, but Valdez is a little bit different harbor town yet. Seems like more of a working town than either Homer or Seward. Lots of fishing boats. We lucked into a great campsite right along the entrance of the marina, so we can see all the boats coming and going. We think this is kind of cool, having the opportunity to sit back and watch the activity.

Went into town for dinner. Nice walk thru town. Had a campfire this evening at our campsite, and sat back and watched the boats coming in for the day. All shapes and sizes. Wonderful evening.

The weather today was very nice again. Very clear with highs in the low 60's.