Day 46: Eagle River

May 30, 2014

We awoke to the sound of rain on the roof this morning with a temp of 47. It still felt cool with the rain. It was cloudy most of the day then later this afternoon the sun was shining brightly. As we said before, we have followed spring north this year and this this morning there were puddles covered with pollen. Things are really starting to bloom here and with the 20-23 hours of daylight they have vibrant color.

We hiked some in the park this morning and then again this afternoon. The Eagle River is so very pretty. It obviously has some glacial silt in it from the color and is running very fast with snow runoff currently. We are having to really keep a tight lead on Scout anytime we are close to the banks because he really wants in the water. Don't know where down stream he would end up if he actually got in that water.

We both got hair cuts today. Not use to letting anyone else cut our hair but.... it was way past time so we just went in to WalMart and told our selves - “it will grow out again”. That too is part of traveling long term. It was fun to talk the the lady who cut our hair about what we should be sure to do and see. She also had a few restaurant suggestions we may try out in Anchorage and Girdwod.

We visited our first Fred Meyer today. We actually ate lunch there. Their deli/hot food bar reminded us of Whole Foods but just not as “wheat germy”. It was good. We would love to have these stores at home. Most of them are very RV friendly and allow RVers to overnight in their parking lot. This store (appeared to be pretty new) was better than a supper Wally or Target with a much better grocery selection and so much wider variety of items. It might be a good thing we don't have them at home. Learned they are part of the Kroger family of businesses. We have heard of Fred Meyer for a long time but just never went in a store. Of course the bread/bakery section instigated some purchases that weren't on the list. We bought a Marionberry coffee cake since we have never tasted marionberry.

Looked that up and found that is is a hybrid blackberry developed and grown in Oregon. It is quite tasty. We are saving some for Donna and Barry to try – well we plan to but they better hope their plane isn't late.

We also went caching again today and drove by an unusual church mentioned in The Milepost, St JohnOrthodox Cathedral. It is a geodesic-dome cathedral with birch ceiling and beautiful icons.

Today we have been on the road for 46 days. We have traveled 4,754 miles in the motor home. Thought we would give you a visual representation of our travels thus far.

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Currently the wind has really picked up and the temp seems to be dropping. Guess that cold front may be coming thru. Tomorrow we will move to an RV park in Anchorage so we can meet Donna and Barry's flight. We will see what else we can get into along the way.