Sunday, August 19, 2012 Anchorage & Tok, AK Teslin, YT

On Thursday night we went to Kati and Dan Rogness' for dinner.  We had a great time.  We graduated high school with Kati and got to know Dan while they were both going to Iowa. Kati and Connie have been friends for 62 years! Kati was the encouragement we needed to make our first trip to Alaska in 1992.  On Friday we had lunch with them, toured the city, and had them over to our MH for dinner.  Great friends and always a joy to spend time with them. 

On Sunday we strarted our trip to Washington.  We drove to near the US/CA boarder today via the Glenn Hwy, the Tok Cutoff, and back on the Alcan; that’s about 385 miles.  We are dry camping tonight.  The road today was pretty good.  There were a couple small stretches that had some serious frost heaves.  There are lots of places to pull off the road and many of those have some beautiful views.

This is Matanuska Glacier on the Glenn Hwy between Palmer and Tok. This Glacier is in the Chugach Mts. and is 27 miles long and is between 2 and 4 miles wide.  At one time, 10,000 years ago, it covered the town of Palmer which is many, many miles away.  

To the right is Mt. Drum which is part of the Wrangle mountains. 

Left is the view we had for lunch today.  This is Kluane Lake, near Destruction Bay.  What a beautiful view.  We ended the day in Teslin, YT, 437 miles down the road.