Good morning, my friends. We had a short drive to Seward yesterday. We were going to be early for our check-in, and so we'd planned a few stops along the way. Our first stop was here at Lower Summit Lake. Looking across...an idyllic setting. It's probably less inviting in winter.
Here's what our Milepost had to say about this spot.
Looking in the opposite direction, it looked like this. If it isn't obvious, it was a gray and drizzly drive.
Mainly, we pulled off here to see the wildflowers promised by the Milepost. This was our selection.
There were a few tufts of lupine.
And lupine lined both sides of the roadway for much of our drive.
I took this next picture because it shows so well how a glacier is simply a river of ice. We're seeing these frozen streams of ice everywhere we go.
The Milepost promised us a trading post where we could pick up some homemade fudge. And, well, you know me. When fudge is available, I'm all in.
Here's what the Milepost tells us about this tiny little town. I was sorry we missed seeing the waterwheel described here:
This is the Moose Drop-in Trading Post. An older couple owned it and they were working the store. We had a nice chat with them.
If we chose four squares of fudge, the fifth one was free. Looking at these, the one on the left is praline. Moving around clockwise, the next one is moose drool (that's caramel to you), then butter pecan, then peanut butter, and then raspberry. We've already eaten the moose drool. Yum.
Also, I picked up a refrigerator magnet and a shot glass there, and so we count this stop as a roaring success. We'll be coming back this way. No doubt, we'll stop in again.
On the way back to our truck, I captured this little not-yet-blooming thing.
As we approached Seward, we saw these waterfalls on the left side of the road. There was another one about every 50 yards or so.
They were dumping snow melt into this lake. Sorry for this poor image. There were little drizzly drops on my window, and the camera chose to focus there. But I wanted you to see the size of this lake. This is Kenai Lake. It went on and on.
So we find ourselves in Seward this morning. Here's what the Milepost tells us about Seward:
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, we have a boat tour scheduled for tomorrow to see the Kenai Fjords. Today will be a free day. We want to do some "life" things. We've already done our laundry, and we need to pick up a couple of things at the grocery store. We want to stop in at the national park visitor center. There's a park nearby with a nice story associated with it. We'll visit the park so I can take some pictures, and then I'll share the story with you. Also...there's a quilt shop in town. Yay! We'll probably toodle around town a little bit too.
Our campground here offers us water and electricity, but no sewer. That means we'll need to make it four days without dumping our tanks. With that in mind, we'll probably eat out at least a couple of times while we're here and save that sink full of dishwater for showers instead. While we were waiting for our laundry, we sat figuring out the best restaurants for our palates and our budget. We'd decided on one, but then ended up going across the street when the wait turned out to be a full hour. We were able to sit at the bar here...it's one of the advantages of being a party of two old people:
Remember during Covid when restaurants started using QR codes to replace menus? Most restaurants we've seen have gone back to regular menus, but use of the QR code seems still to be popular in brewery-style restaurants. Their menu cracked me up:
Also...this:
And finally...read this to the end:
For now, Smitty would like you to understand the trials and tribulations of being a traveling cat. When he goes out on the catio, his long tail sometimes stays inside the camper. This can be an annoyance, especially when your companion cat thinks the tail makes a good toy.
Just FYI, I'll take tomorrow off from blogging. We are to meet our tour boat at 7:00 a.m. We're keeping our fingers crossed for an improvement in the weather. The tour will go either way. Fortunately, we both have our good rain gear with us, and so we'll be fine either way. Still, some sunshine and blue skies would be welcome. I'll be back on Thursday to tell you all about it. Hopefully, we'll get to see some aquatic wildlife and some good glacier activity.
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