The Wonderful Kenai Peninsula!

We were awakened by the beautiful sound of a train coming down the tract and blowing it's whistle as it came around the bend, that might not seem like much to some but in Hawaii we don't see trains so for my girls to hear the train was a special treat! We were camped approximately 20 feet from the track so my girls really experienced the full definition of a train!

Spending the night on the Turn Again Arm was such a blessing, I'm convinced, there's no other place on earth like it with it's stark mountains, waterfalls, bald eagles, beluga whales, and beautiful mud flats of Cook Inlet.

As we were leaving Turn Again Arm on our way to the Kenai Peninsula, we arrived on the mud flats just in time to attend the "Alaska Bald Eagle Convention"!

We stopped off at Portage Glacier...again...indescribable!

The many twists and turns of the highway from Portage Glacier to the Kenai Peninsula are so beautiful!

We reached our destination, the Beluga Outlook RV Park, and this is my favorite rv park thus far.
It has full hook up, free showers (No other park we've stayed at has offered free showers.) Beluga Outlook RV sits on an amazing bluff overlooking the mudflats of the mouth of the Kenai River and Cook Inlet. Across the inlet, approximately 40 miles, sits Mt. Redoubt and Mt Illiamna. 

Beluga Outlook RV also offers birds galore and a very nice pathway to Cook Inlet.

Our mornings are spent walking the mud flats, watching the Coast Guard perform touch and goes, bird watching, observing how the locals fish, and skipping rocks on Cook Inlet.

Is there any better pastime for two little daddy's girls than a rock skipping contest?

It appears not...

Her children rise up and call her blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied); and her husband boasts of and praises her, (Proverbs 31:28, Amp)

The Land of the Midnight Sun: From the North Pole to the Kenai Peninsula!

We dry docked in the wilderness on top of a hill with this inexplicable view before reaching Tok, Alaska. 

Sometime thereafter, we made a quick stop off for some reindeer sausage at Delta Meat Co, yum-yum! P.s. Please don't tell Santa. 

After our quality time with reindeer sausage, we hit North Pole Alaska, where we were super blessed to talk and laugh with friends well into the night; or in this case, twilight as Alaska is currently having over 19 hours of daylight! 

We spent the night at the River View RV park which has full hook up except in our case, only had electricity (no water) because of "late break up" (snow cover turning to slush).

We stopped by the Santa Claus House because our friends told us reindeer were penned up out back. We saw them and I screamed, "Let my people...and my reindeer...go!"

On the road again...tally ho...Denali National Park or Bust!

Mike cooked reindeer sausage for breakfast and then he cooked bear chili in Denali National Park for lunch...I am enjoying my meat overload!

Denali National Park is like all over National Parks...phenomenal!

I think I'm "getting this cold thing"...layers are critical. My key to cold success is: Yoga pants, pajama pants, sweat pants, tank top, Hawaiian rash guard, fleece, scarf, gloves, sock hat, stay huddled up to my human heater (aka Mike) yay, I'm not "cold miserable" anymore! And I can almost last as long as Mr. Hawaiian Board Shorts Man (...not really)!

The drive from Denali National Park to Wasilla is literally indescribable, so I will attempt to show you!

We dry docked on Turn Again Arm, just south of Anchorage on the Seward Highway. Cook Inlet on our right and 3,000 foot mountains of Chugach National Forrest on our left with many waterfalls along our way...now you can understand why the only word I can utter is...indescribable!