Day 42: Tok

May 26, 2014

It was another cool start for the day at 35 when we got up. A little furnace time warmed Fred right up and then the sun did the rest. The high was about 65 so it was a great day to be out and about. First things first – it's always a walk for Scout. This morning's walk took one of us by a particularly interesting street sign.

When we were at Three Bears Grocery yesterday they told us they would have fresh doughnuts this morning. So.....we just had to go check them out.

No we did not eat them all! They will serve as tomorrow's breakfast as well. They are quite good.

As planned, after breakfast we went to the RV wash and spent the next 3 hours washing Fred and the truck. They still are not as clean as we would like but they are so much better. Neither vehicle had ever been as dirty. There were rocks “cemented” to the undercarriage with the glacial silt type dust. We are still working on getting all the dust out of the truck's interior but it is much, much better.

Before

After

After that we did a little research on some upcoming plans and then it was time for a late lunch. While we were at the RV wash a nice man from Tok came up to wash a school bus. He said they were getting them ready to carry firefighters to various fire scenes, since fire season has started. There actually is a working forest fire close enough to Tok that we could smell the smoke last night. Anyway, we got to talking to him and he recommended a new restaurant in town – Sal and Scott's Four Amigos.

It is a Mexican restaurant which is unusual this far north and we haven't had any good Mexican food for quite a while now. We decided to give it a try and it was very good! For those RVers headed this way the restaurant is next door Golden Bear Motel and RV park on the Tok Cutoff. They are open 10am-10pm and even deliver up to 5 miles so that covers most of the RV parks in Tok. There aren't many choices of restaurants here so if you like Mexican you should give this one a try.

After working all morning and then eating a big meal we deserved and needed some play time so we did a little caching and took a nice hike. Alaska is a beautiful state!

We are staying about 8 miles outside of Tok tonight at the trail head of a hike we did today. We will be heading on out of town in the morning going to Wrangell-St Elias National Park and then on to Glennallen. This is suppose to be a very scenic drive so we hope to have some really good pictures for tomorrow.

Donna and Barry will be here in 5 days and we all just can't wait for that portion of the journey to begin.