talkeetnamalispinaloop: PALMER

Sunday, June 17, 2007

PALMER

June 17~Father's Day~sunny/cloudy.
Sleeping in due to late night. Stan didn't even get up for his coffee until just before 9am and shortly thereafter Bobbie's and Stan's son, Steve, his wife and 8 mo. old son arrived to take them to Father's Day breakfast and to drive to Hatcher Pass for a hike and to try their hand at gold panning. We decided to stay home doing laundry, the blog...and calling friends(Donna! Glad you are doing well...thinking of/praying for you!).
We will be leaving for Talkeetna tomorrow morning, taking a look at our property to see how the road weathered the winter, then heading to Denali to pick up shuttle tickets for our ride into the park on Tuesday. Camping at Denali Grizzly Bear Resort, 6 miles west of the park entrance. Updates to follow later this week.

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Talkeetna purchase

We bought land about 15 miles SW of Talkeetna, Alaska...on e-bay...sight unseen! in 2006. I probably wouldn't recommend doing that for everyone, but we were blessed it was legal...and now have good neighbors in the north, too. In fact, one of our neighbors built a 250 foot road with a turn-around into our place and we could stay on our land part of the summer. Of course, then there was the flood with the washing out of the only good road leading to Malispina Loop, so had to wait to start back to MT for a few days until that was repaired and we could retrieve our cargo trailer, since we had left it on our land while down on the Kenai.

Welcome to the travels of John and Chrysa

We leave on June 6th so are in the process of thinking about getting ready. Actually, I've had stacks here and there all winter, but don't know if that'll save me time or not. I have washed and waxed the fronts of the camper (slide-in with tip-out) and under the overhead so all the bugs we hit can have a spot now. It was fairly crowded before starting...but I always use 'Black streak remover'~ if you haven't tried it, do...it's awesome! I'm going to give getting pictures on here a whirl in the near future...just hoping it's nearer (didn't have problems) than farther (had problems) away.