after visiting with mike, beau and i headed back into anchorage...of course it was pouring rain...but at least we still had time for our nightly cribbage match...beau and i have been playing cribbage together since the ice...its a great game and you should learn to play it if you don't know how to already...its a big ice game....anyway...the next morning...with another cloudy day, we set out for valdez...which was about 6 hours away...during the drive the skies actually cleared up for a time and we got to stop and see the matanuska and worthington glaciers...the one pictured below is the mantanuska glacier...we walked down and partially on this one...the blue ice was spectacular....
the next shot is the second glacier we stopped at...the worthington glacier...just outside of valdez...and it was incredible, although the area was really windy...the picture below is an "artsty" shot i took thru a set of binoculars at the site...it shows the blue ice of the galcier quite well in my opinion....lovin that blue ice....
after the second glacier, we wound through the mountains and turned one of the corners and were in thompson's pass....and holy cow...what a stunning place that is...it is a million snow fields, even in june...and just took my breath away....below is a shot of the breathtaking view we saw when we rounded the corner.....just stunning :)
beau and i spent the night in valdez....a quaint little town that focuses on oil and the movement of it out of alaska....its where the exxon valdez had its oil spill some years back...and i had to grab some of the soil on the banks of the prince william sound....always a science teacher...from our night in valdez, we headed back to anchorage where i picked up a flight back to seattle....all in all the trip to alaska was amazing and blew my mind in so many ways...i really do think i will end up there some day and live in the middle of nowhere....so if you want to see me then, you'll have to find me....but you just never know....this last shot is of beau at the worthington glacier...although the glacier is behind me, and i am taking the picture...we took this to show that the sun did come out for some part of the trip...although that part was really small...
i would like to take this point to say thanks to mike, mary, tyler and crista for hanging with me while i was in their fine state(whether they live there or were just visiting)...and a big thanks to janet for letting me bunk with her for four days....and a gi-normous thanks to my good friend beau for taking time off to play and drive all over alaska with me...it was a wonderful trip and i hope to do it again in the near future...maybe even when snow machines are running....wouldn't that be a blast.....and one more thing....if you haven't been to alaska...you NEED to get there...it is a wondrous place....with so much to see and do....get there!!!!
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