Soldotna, Kenai Peninsula
(Part One of Three)
It is so good to be home! Traveling is great, but there’s nothing like getting home to your own home, bed, and familiar surroundings. Unfortunately, there is smoke here in the Interior. We saw heavy smoke from the fires as we passed through Nenana. Last night, the air wasn’t too bad, but today it’s horrible. In fact, it’s so bad, that I canceled my plans to run errands. I’ve had to use my asthma inhaler several times since arriving home. The windows are all closed to keep the smokey air out of the house. At least the sun is shining - not the best consolation though.
I finally edited, resized, and uploaded the many photos I took over the last two weeks, but because there are so many, I’m going to break my journal entries into three parts: Soldotna, Travel to Seward (and in Seward), and Travel to Talkeetna (and Home).
Soldotna
Our drive from Homer to Soldotna was under rainy skies. We hoped that the weather wasn’t going to stick with us the entire time we were there, but the forecast didn’t look very good for fair weather.
Soldotna is only about 60 miles from Homer, so we had an easy drive. Because of this, we stayed as late as we could at the campground in Homer, and stopped at a rest stop in Ninilchik to make sandwiches for lunch. By then, the rain had stopped, but skies were still gray.
When we arrived at our campground in Soldotna (Klondyke RV Park), we were happy to find that the site we booked was still ours. (The campground owner is notorious for moving folks from the spots that they reserved to other locations) However, there was no picnic table at our site, while everyone around us had a table. We asked about moving one of the tables from the open sites to our camper, and were told that we didn’t ‘reserve’ a table when we made our reservation. Who would have thought that you had to request a picnic table? Fortunately, she did agree to move a table once we were set up.
We took Sedona for a walk near the woods of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. The sun wasn’t shining, but at least it wasn’t raining. I took some photos of the wildflowers I found blooming along the way:
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