We visited our old friends from Vermont who moved to Alaska a few years ago. We used their wonderful cabin as our home base to explore their huge state. Curtis and Jordan purchased their new home a year ago and recently purchased the neighbors cabin as an AirBnB.
Their small dog wears the “Eagle Vest” as protection from the common, predatory Bald Eagle. Curtis has installed crisscrossed string lines above his chicken yard to deter the roaming Eagles.
We stopped a couple of times to look at the Alaskan pipe line while we were around Fairbanks, about halfway on its winding path from the Arctic oil fields to the south coast for loading onto tankers to Japan ( 800 miles ) .
We spent a day in Anchorage, a new city on the coast. It’s an odd mixture of tourists and poverty, the homeless
are everywhere. We stopped by a restaurant overlooking a river near the city center and watched a woman catch a 22 pound King Salmon in a river meandering thru the city outskirts. We were warned about bears at our city campground. The 20 hours of sunshine was great.
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