Wednesday, July 31, 2024

 

Day 26

We woke up at Lulu’s camp to a little rain and 47 degrees. Fog laying on the river. It was beautiful even though I am not thrilled to see more rain.


 We are heading to Valdez and then turn back around and head up to Tok. As we move further east the rain and cold pick up. We pulled off to see the big glacier we saw on the way to Anchorage last week. We got a break in the weather, and it was not raining, and it was visible.

 


 Boyd has been having issues with his bike in the backend. We put it up on the center stand and discovered that his chain needed to be tightened. So, we fixed it right there since the rain let up. What a great place to fix a bike. Right by the glacier.

 


 We went up and over Summit Pass and it was pouring rain and 44 degrees of course with some nice wind!!!

Man, it was cold. We pulled into the Glenn Allen junction and went into the Visitors center as they have free coffee. We decided after talking to the staff in there to skip Valdez and head to Tok. It is about 140 miles to Valdez from here. We would hit it and then turn around and head back up through here on the way to Tok. Weather is showing possible snow on Thompson Pass along the way down. We said BS to that and pointed the front wheel to Tok.

As we are heading north, we are driving out of the Sevier storm, and it is warming up to 51 degrees. Feels like a heat wave for sure.

We are following the Gakona River. It is huge and muddy as it is glacier fed which puts a lot of silt into it.

 


As we get closer to Tok (About 50 miles to go) we roll up to a mommy and baby moose. Well, what do you do? You cast them as stars and give them a leading role. They performed perfectly. After we gave them a Grammy Award we pegged up and throttled back into Tok.




We pulled into Thompson’s Eagle Claw Motorcycle campground for the night. We love this place.

We found a laundry mat and thru all our wet cloths and gear in the dryer. Then rolled over to Fast Eddys for dinner.

Boyd is checking his chain again and adjusting it a little more at camp while I work on this blog.


How can you not love this?

Let’s see what tomorrow brings.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bummer about the weather ! This time of year ? Always be safe as I know you will ! Keep the Blogs coming! MB

Anonymous said...

You are some tough mothers, I don’t like riding in the rain and you guys with no place to go to get out of it. Fun times and line Dave says how can you not love it

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