Living in Alaska - Life in the Last Frontier

As usual, I took so many photos, that I’m going to break down the account of our recent travels into three separate blog entries:

Part One: Fairbanks - Palmer - First Days in Seward

Part Two: In Seward: Exit Glacier, Sea Life Center, Wildlife Cruise

Part Three: Talkeetna and Home

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FAIRBANKS - PALMER

We were on the road by 10am - which is our target time when we travel.  We don’t bother rushing around in the morning, because we’re not at risk of running out of daylight when traveling in the summer months.  Towing the camper, it takes about seven hours to get to Palmer, even longer when there’s road construction - and there is always road construction in the summer months.

I love the summer months, and I love that Alaska attracts so many tourists at this time of year. The roads are full of RVs of all sizes.  And with such gorgeous scenery, you can be sure that travelers aren’t always maintaining the speed limit.  Steve has a real issue with not being able to see the open road ahead of him, so he always passes the slowpokes. Doing this while towing our own trailer, on a two lane highway, with sometimes limited visibility, stresses me out!  I’m always happy when we finally get to our destination, as I can breathe again.

We drove through several areas of construction requiring a flagger. One of the longer stops was at least 20 minutes, if not longer. And we were at the end of a long line of RVs and boats, etc.  I dreaded to think about all of the passing we had ahead of us. Yikes!

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