Playing catchup

I am way behind in posts from the last couple of weeks because we hit some bumps in the road (both figuratively and in reality) so this one will cover a bit more ground than usual.

We left Denali to spend a week in Fairbanks and were very underwhelmed. It won’t be on our list for any return trips, although the Museum of the North at the University of Alaska was very interesting. We also swung by the North Pole, and the highlight was the post office 🙂

We trekked on south into the Yukon down the Alaskan “Highway” which had actually gotten worse than when we came north 2 months ago. We were bouncing so much that the frig locks failed and the doors opened and contents dumped all over the floor while we were driving, what a mess!

We were retracing our route that we took going north for the next few days, until we turned off back into Alaska to go to Haines. If you’ve ever gone on an Alaskan cruise, there is usually a stop either in Haines or across the fjord (they call them canals here) in Skagway, both are “around the corner” from Glacier Bay National Park. Haines was gorgeous and we would have stayed longer if there had been any openings beyond the week we reserved at our campground right on the fjord.

Here’s the views from our campsite. The cruise ships were only there for 2 days when we were so it is was a pretty sleepy town.

There is a salmon run at the head of the fjord that attracts lots of anglers and a fish weir that F&G uses to do the salmon counts. Bear scat is all over the road. We’ve seen bears, but too fast to get any pictures:(