05/14/19 Back on Highway 1

After leaving Valdez, we stopped at Horsetail Falls for pictures, got pictures of Bridal Veil Falls, and stopped at the Railroad Tunnel. Then you begin a long climb up hill.

I had hoped to stop at Worthington Glacier, as they say this is one you can get close to. But the road was closed to driving up to the next parking area.

The Wrangell-St. Elias visitor center (Copper Center Complex) road wasn’t blocked off so we thought maybe it was open. (Wasn't suppose to open until May 15th.) There were some school buses and cars in the lot, and we found a place to park. The visitor center isn’t officially open but there were two ladies there able to help us out. We visited with one of them who was volunteering for the summer, she’s from Colorado. We could take the Jeep to McCarthy, but we’d have to leave the motorhome in Chitina. That was back south 50+ miles, so we decided not to do that. There’s also a Visitor Center and entrance near Slana, which is near Tok, which we may be heading back that way again this summer. We’ll see what happens. I was able to get park stamps.

Back to Gleanallen junction and filling fuel at $3.579 gallon. There is diesel and gas at the front pumps and diesel at the back pumps. We took the back pumps where the trucks would go. Curt was able to start the pump with his credit card, but it quit before $100 so I had to go inside to have her restart the pump.

 We got back on Highway 1 heading toward Seward, and stopped at Long Lake State Recreation Area. It was right by the lake off the highway. We found this on freecampsites.net. There were some people fishing while we got there, and people came and went throughout the evening. It was a nice spot; but a few pot holes that you have to go slow through. It was a little noisy by the highway. We had no cell service. 

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