We drove into Anchorage and headed straight to Costco, can you believe it ?... Filling the cabinets and the refrigerator we drove back to the Palmer area (because we didn't find a campground in Anchorage I liked AND wanted to pay their EXTREMELY high prices ) and spent the night at the Wasilla / Palmer Elks Club ($15with hook ups AND right on the shore of this beautiful lake. I just have to say THANK YOU Bob and Shirley for not only recommending that we join the Elks, but sponsoring us as well...this is one of the many things that Louise and I look back on and say "Thank You" for all the great people we have met through the Elks but also the wonderful campgrounds around the country that we have stayed at in the last 5 years. I posted our stay at the Elks yesterday but I'm going to do it again because it was one of the most beautiful that we have stayed at with only the Elks in Glouchester, Mass. ranking higher in our minds. This early afternoon we decided to leave the Anchorage area and head towards Valdez with many stops in between. One of our stops was to take a short hike (2 miles return) to see the Matanuska Glacier. The width of the ice at the end of the glacier was just over 4 miles wide but about 2 miles distance from us. There was a road that would take us to the glacier but we couldn't find it..so sorry...but maybe next time. A couple things we did find though was a truck that got in front of us at a road construction site and we had to follow for MILES on MILES... the good a out following him was he was filled with trout and arctic char. I decided that it might be kind of cool to see him "stock" a lake so when he pulled off and into a hugh mountain lake, we followed...amazing sight and adventure for us "oldies". We had also read about this high mountain lake called Lake Louise that was found after following a heavily heaving and bumpy road for 17 miles. We were NOT disappointed but we were the only ones there. This lake is AAMAZING with 2 "A's"... Oh hell, give it 3...
