05/12/19 and 05/13/19 Valdez Alaska

Continuing on Highway 1, and climbing up and down hills again. On our way to Valdez.

Beautiful day for scenery pictures. 

 

The roads are slow-going. After turning on to Highway 4, there's a few areas you can see the pipeline. 

 I took so many pictures of the snowy mountains, it's hard to choose which to post!

Thompson Pass, elevation 2678 feet

Once getting to Valdez, we went into town to see where we could park the motorhome so we could drive around with the Jeep. We found the civic center parking lot, empty and unhooked there.  We drove to the airport to see if the pilot festival was still going on. There were finishing up on balloon toss and that was the last competition. It was fun to see the different airplanes. People had brought their camp chairs to sit and watch and there were food booths there.

After that we drove to Glacier View Park, about a mile from the airport. We found this on freecampsites.net. There was one motorhome parked on the top area, and some cars parked down by the water.  Curt thought it would be no problem getting in the area, so we decided to park here for the night.

We drove back to town and to the small boat harbor and walked around a bit looking at the boats. I found a Little Free Library there. We drove around town and found the ferry terminal. It doesn’t start until June. 

After doing some internet stuff back at the motorhome, we drove out to Glacier View Park parking lot for the evening.

05/13/19

Spent another day here. I went through pictures, wrote up blog posts to upload when we’ve got internet, etc. There’s a few cars and campers that come and go.

For more pictures, please click here.