Day 13

Welcome! Day 13 (Aug 21) of North to Alaska

 

Quote. Age is relative…When you’re over the hill…You pick up speed. Red Dirt Shirt

The hotel room was nice. We had an excellent view of the bay. We slept well. But the breakfast was lacking, warm coffee and cold bagel. In fairness Cassie had planned to sleep in (I have trained her that sleeping in is getting up at 8:00) and we were to go out for breakfast even before I saw the warm coffee and cold bagel. We had problems last night finding a place for dinner, this morning we had equally hard time finding a place for breakfast. We located two places which said they served breakfast starting at 7 but at 8:30 they were both closed. We went to Fort Steward hotel which had a restaurant attached. They only served dinner, we should have stopped last night. But they were nice and recommended a hole-in-wall place called Sara’s. This turned out to be very nice. We each got a breakfast sandwich, Cassie got some fancy Latté coffee and I got old fashion Hot Chocolate. This was mostly a to-go place but they had one table which we shared with a couple from California, which were vacationing by ferry. They took the ferry (no car) from one port to the next and stayed a few days then moved to the next port. Sara’s was a good find.   

We finally got on the road about 9:30, I had filled the tank with gas while Cassie still slept. The road was excellent with no traffic. I think a couple of cars passed me and I passed three large trucks. According to AAA and Cassie the road was very scenic. If you have seen AAA maps the scenic roads have dots alongside the road, Cassie always picks these out (Of course this time she had no choice, it is the only road out of Haines). We went up and down and around many curves. It had mountains with snow on top and rivers with water. I stopped several times and took some pictures. It actually was a very easy and relaxing drive.

The mileage was about 160 miles so we made it in about three and half hours. We had to give back the hour we gained yesterday so clock wise it was about four and a half hours. We arrived in Haines Junction about 2:30 and had lunch at the Frozen Freeze.  Haines Junction has about 800 people with several places to eat and stay. It has at least two gas stations. After checking in to our room we drove around for about 20 minutes and saw the entire town. For supper we got some food from the local bakery, you know every little town has one. Cassie got a pot pie and I got a cheese bread pepperoni dog. Both were good.

Tomorrow back to Alaska.

Same picture as day before without rainbow

From Haines Highway

From Haines Highway

From Haines Highway

From our Hotel room