Day
36 – 6-16-15 Tuesday I didn't hear them but Lena said a motor home
pulled into the site beside us (the one the loud campers were in) at
1:15AM last night. So between them and some people in the site across
the driveway from us talking loud until late she didn't get much
sleep. So we were glad when we pulled out of this campground about
9AM. The sites are just too close together for our liking.
We
drove back through Anchorage and stopped outside of Palmer to fuel up
the motor home. There was some road construction between Seward and
Anchorage and some outside of Palmer where we had to wait our turn to
get through the one lane open. Some people say there is two seasons
in Alaska – Winter and Road Construction. They get so much damage
to the roads in Winter they have to work all Summer to fix them.
The
Glenn Highway from Palmer went up and down and around mountains. If a
vehicle was to go off the side of the road in some places along this
road it is unlikely anyone would survive. From the roadway down the
cliff to the river was quite a drop off and no guard rails.
We
had driven 220 miles so about 3PM we stopped for the night at
Matanuska Glacier State Recreation Area Campground just off the Glenn
Highway. It only has 9 campsites so we weren't sure we would get one
but there was no campers there when we got there. Only site #8 was
large enough for us so we took it. They also have 9 pull through
areas in the parking lot that can be used to overnight in. There are
no hookups so we are boondocking. After getting a snack we hiked the
1 mile trail to the overlook where we could see Matanuska Glacier
below.
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| Matanuska Glacier |
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| Wild Rose |
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| Site 8 |
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| Moose Nuggets |
We
returned to the campground and got our lounge chairs out and read for
awhile. It was nice and quiet. The campground is covered in several
different type of trees and vegetation with lots of space between
sites just like we like it. I grilled some brats for supper. By 9PM
only 4 of the nine sites were occupied.
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