Friday, July 30, 2010

Glenallen, AK to Soldotna, AK

We plan to make Soldotna today for the SOWERS project. We are supposed to arrive on Friday or Saturday to get set up, attend an orientation meeting, and be ready to begin work on Monday. We are driving from Glenallen, AK to Soldotna, AK along the Glenn Highway, the Seward Highway and then the Sterling Highway. There was a Musk Ox Farm along the highway. We stopped at the visitor’s center, where we got a good picture of a stuffed musk ox, and got a few pictures of the live musk ox from a distance through a fence. We didn’t have time to stay for the tour, where you get to feed them. The Nelchina Glacier was huge, and the river was muddy but beautiful. We stopped at Beluga Point on the Seward Highway. We didn’t see any whales. The tide was out.

We made it to Soldotna and got our trailer set up. We will be here for 3 weeks working the project and then a few days with Janine and Kristy here. This camp has electric but no water or sewer. It will be a challenge to not run out of water with our little trailer and it’s 16 gallon gray water holding tank. There are 5 couples here for this project. We will have our orientation meeting tomorrow.


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