Day 25 we woke up in Valdez, AK. It rained that night, but the gravel lot
seemed dry when we got up. Tried to
start a pot of coffee and it would not come on.
Went to Safeway and bought a new one.
Hooked up and left at 9:35 and it was 62 degrees.
The first thing we had to do was climb the pass. We went 40 mph in third gear with the engine
turning 2300 rpm. It took 11 minutes
like this to get to the top. It said we
were getting 7.9 mpg.
Going down the other side we had to pass two large beams being
towed by big trucks, two lead pilot cars and one trailing pilot car. The beams must have been manufactured
somewhere else and brought into the port of Valdez by boat. We had no idea of their final destination.
Arrived at Glennallen at Noon and then took the Tok Cutoff
and headed home. About an hour before
reaching Tok, we started to smell something.
We thought it was a weed killer they may be spraying in the ditches, but
then we realized it was smoke. It got
very smoky by the time we reached Tok, and at the campground they said the road
from Tok north to Fairbanks was closed due to the forest fires. People at the campground were considering
turning their trip around and instead of going to Fairbanks first and then
around like we did, they were going to go to Valdez first and do our trip in
reverse.
Arrived at Tok RV Park at 2:45 PM. We had not had lunch yet, so we went to Fast
Eddies for a late lunch/ early dinner.
We had dinner salads, pizza and beer.
Back at the RV Park, we did three loads of laundry and watched some
television. The RV Park supplied a cable
hookup. At 10 PM we had an Ice Cream Bar
and went to bed.
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