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Day 54: Monday, July 26th Heading to Seward Day II

We spent the night at our newest favorite camp spot at Hidden Lake.  The spot we had before was taken, but we camped across the road.  Thankfully there was a pavilion close to our campsite for Scott to cook breakfast in.  He had to take the tent down in the rain though.  Quite humorously we listened to the country song “Rain is a Good Thing” as we cruised out towards some partial sun and back to Highway Number One or the Sterling Highway.

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Day 53: Sunday, July 25th: Heading toward Seward

We camped on a Homer hillside overlooking the spit last night.  Scott will laugh at me mentioning this, but I was a little taken aback when I went to pay for our site and found a post that noted that a bear had been spotted in the campground just four days prior.  For the most part bears want to be away from people, so when I saw that it concerned me that it might be a bear that associates people with food.  Most campers are responsible and respectful and clean up after themselves, but there are a few out there that make things dangerous for the rest of us.  It really took me aback because I have tried, in the best interest of enjoying this trip and not worrying myself into an early grave, to think that close bear encounters are rare.  It didn’t help things knowing our camping neighbor had no vehicle to store his coolers of yummy food in.  I’m going to go back to thinking bear encounters are rare now.  Back to our regularly scheduled post…

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Day 52 Saturday, July 24th - Homer

A raven woke us up to a calm morning.  It was almost as if he was saying, “Hurry up, it isn’t windy and isn’t raining and it won’t be that way for long.”  At least that’s what I decided after I chased him away two times and he woke the family up anyway.

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Day 51: Friday, July 23rd Leaving Hidden Lake Heading to Homer

Sandy found part of a fishing pole for Brooke.  Scott attached some line and a bobber.  Brooke was patiently fishing along our campsite shore while we ate breakfast and enjoyed the very fine sunshine.  After breakfast we sadly said goodbye to Sandy and Jack and headed to Homer.

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Day 50: Thursday, July 22nd Hidden Lake

We met a wonderful couple at Hidden Lake Campground.  Jack and Sandy were incredibly generous of their “quiet” time together to be not only understanding of our two cuties, but kindly offered us use of their brand new row boat and took an instant liking to the kids.  They even found part of a fishing pole for Brooke to use for her very own fishing pole.  Scott attached a string and a bobber on it for her.  We at least caught some interest from the baby minnows with a raisin from our campsite.

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Day 49: Wednesday, July 21st: Leaving Anchorage

Not that I’m a big partier, but waking up this morning was like waking up after a very late and very wild party.  We walked around looking at the damage and trying to assess the best method of recovery.  Someone up there must have a great sense of humor, because I thought the constant spitting rain was bad.  Apparently, I wasn’t thinking straight.  Things got a whole lot worse.

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Day 48: Tuesday, July 20: Anchorage: REI, Polka, and Seaplanes

It was wet and slightly raining (spitting) this morning.  We were questioning heading out of Anchorage this morning, but then we decided to stick around for one more night.  Why did we decide to stick around?  SHOWERS! Tonight will be our last showers until…who knows?!?  The good news is that I am still on my original bottles of travel size (less than 3 oz each) shampoo and conditioner since we so rarely use them.

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Day 47: Monday, July 19th: Anchorage: Public Lands Historical Tour, Fire Dept. Tour, and a bike ride

We had a very busy day today.  Sometimes we are lucky to accomplish one major task in a day, but today we checked off three things on our list of things to do in Anchorage.  The first task was a walking tour from the Public Lands Visitor’s Center.  It was around the city and in the rain, but they had umbrellas on hand for us to borrow.  They told us a little history on the Native people, the Russian sale of Alaska, and James Cook.  The tour was forty-five minutes, and then we headed back to the visitors center to do an animal scavenger hunt and watch some movies about Alaska bears and National Parks.  Then we had a personal tour of the largest Anchorage Fire Station.  Finally, we biked a nice and relaxed fourteen miles in three hours around downtown Anchorage and then out towards the airport for a look back at the city.

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