Day 34

It started raining during the night and continued all day. The weather girl on the radio said it was supposed to stop raining in the afternoon – she lied. We took our time getting ready to meet the day, I even cooked breakfast. Jan saw sausage and eggs on his plate and had to ask what they were – he hadn’t seen anything like that in a long time. I tell him I don’t cook breakfast because it’s not good for him. I think he believes it and nobody better tell him otherwise. I also tried to tell him a cooked dinner isn’t good for him either but he didn’t fall for that one.

We camped (if you can call staying in an RV camping) near Valdez Glacier so that was our first stop. The “Mileposts” magazine said it wasn’t much of a glacier but we thought it was awesome. The main body of the glacier is up the mountain pretty far away but there’s a lake at the base and chunks of the glacier are floating in it. It was so pretty and we took lots of pictures.

There was an earthquake here in 1964 and the town had to be relocated. They have an area called “Old Valdez” that’s supposed to be a point of interest. It wasn’t all that interesting. The pipeline ends here and we wanted to take a picture of the end of the line monument. There was a picture of it in a tourist brochure but we couldn’t find it. It turns out that after September 11th, they closed the area where they gave the tours and that’s where the photo op is.

We drove to the harbor again and Jan took some pictures; he also took pictures around town. We didn’t get a chance to do that when we were with Jerry & Nancy – we hate to make them suffer through the creative process of taking the perfect picture. We went to a fish market and bought some halibut – it’s a lot cheaper than hiring a charter and catching them yourself.