Day 34

Welcome! Day 34 (Sept 11) of North to Alaska

 

Quote: “No Rain…No Rainbows!!!” Red Dirt Shirt

Today we travelled to Wasilla, about 4 hours of driving.

Cassie was feeling better, but not quite her bossy self. She claimed she was not hurting but still had a very bad cough. She drank a lot of water and seemed to take the drive in stride. We had seen most everything on the Seward Highway. Twice via train and once yesterday as we drove to Seward. A couple of things I did not mention previously. One was about how Moose Pass got its name. Seems like a small community was formed but did not have a name. But since there was people mail needed to be delivered. Well the mail carrier was having trouble with the moose in the area. So he put an ad in the paper announcing the abundance of moose in the area. His hope was that hunters would descend on the area and rid it of the moose. So people   started calling the area Moose Pass. The other was about Summit Lake. Summit Lake is a natural lake on top of a mountain at the Divide. The divide is the place where water drains either south to Resurrection Bay or north to the Cook Inlet. So Summit Lake drains from both ends of the lake.

Also on the way north we took a side trip over to Hope AK. This is a small isolated community about 15 miles from the Seward Highway. Hope is primarily about fishing as it is on the shores of Turnagain Arm of the Cook Inlet. It has mostly been shut down for the winter. We did find a café still open for another week. The people were friendly, the service good, and the food eatable.

After leaving Hope we made our way thru Anchorage to Wasilla.  Wasilla is a nice little town. It has many name brand stores and restaurants. As some may know Wasilla is the home of Sarah Palin. In our three weeks in Alaska we never heard anyone mention this. But we did hear that Wasilla is known as the Duct Tape Capital as in 2003 Walmart sold over 100 miles of duct tape.

We stayed on the north side at a Best Western on Lake Lucille. It was a very nice place.

Summit Lake drains from both ends