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Spent our first night in the lower48 in Winthrop Washington after driving through the Cascades.  Last night was spent at a very nice KOA outside of Glacier National Park in Montana.

The pics span from the ferry to just yesterday…

 

Made it to Washington…cross country begins!

Almost our last night in Alaskan waters and we’re given this great sunset!

Last day in Alaska…nice little town. While in Ketch Savannah took her first ride on a bus…after eating lunch at an old brothel…overlooking a stream rhat was used for smuggling booze…bet she’ll never meet another person who can say that!

Made it to Juneau, the dogs have been ran, given some food and water, and I’m going back to bed! Next port is around 9am tomorrow.

We are on the M/V Columbia and getting underway to Washington. I’ll be doing all the updates from my cell phone when ever we have service. The weather is still beughtiful, the sun is setting, and Savannah just layed down for her first night in the Inner Passage.
If you’d like to read about the boat Google “Alaska Marine Highway” check out the links.

Unloading in Homer!

We’re heading for Homer! Should arive around 8 tomorrow morning and then off to Anchorage and some glacier viewing! Savannah is doing great, born to travel. The pic is the sunseeker setting at the ferry terminal, we’ll update this page every change we get!

Some pics from my phone…
Big water on the Marine Highway and iced over windows from the spray.

Wow…we’ve got an RV!
Big adventure getting it here…
After weeks of talking on the phone it started with a military PAX transport to Anchorage, caught a ride to the dealership. Picked out the RV I wanted and took it for a test drive, not too bad…didn’t notice there wasn’t any traffic. Bought the RV and hit the road, by this time the base traffic out of Elemndorf was in full swing and bumper-to-bumper. After a white knuckled trip out of Anchorage I set off for Homer to catch the ferry to Kodiak.  While driving from Anchorage to Homer I hit freezing rain, snow, fog, and had ice/snow covered roads with no cell service in case something happened…an RV trial by fire.  I arrived in Homer around 2 in the morning and slept in the RV next to the ocean, not too bad. The next morning I loaded onto the ferry and set sail for Kodiak around 1pm. The seas were so high it was spraying over the bow of the ship (the ferry is the size of a cruise ship) and icing everything up. We were pitching and rolling within 5 degrees of the ships max so the captain decided to take it to the backside of the island and slip through Whale Pass. We were supposed to arrive in Kodiak at 11pm but didn’t make it in until 2am.
It was worth it…I like the thing…now we gotta think of a name!