After boondocking in the Sam’s Club parking lot we were up at 4AM to arrive at the PenAir terminal for our flight to Brooks Falls. It was wonderful, no security, no baggage check, just a plane ride to King Salmon AK. After arriving at King Salmon we took a bus to the float plane dock. While waiting for the plane to get ready we spent some quality time swatting mosquitoes and flies…monsters. Before they would let us board each one of us had to step on the scales for a weight check…some of the ladies didn’t want to get on the scales…imagine that! So, after weighing in, it was time to board, each person was placed on the plane according to weight, and away we went. Val’s cousin had offered to ship a box of Depends for Val and I, but it was totally unnecessary, it was a great flight. After arriving at Brooks Lodge and taking a Bear Awareness Class and receiving our certification pin, it was off to view the bears. After a one mile walk from the lodge and going through some security gates and a floating bridge we arrived at the elevated viewing platform. After waiting for 4 hours for a bear to make an appearance we were really getting disappointed. We had expected to see many bears because it is one of the best bear viewing areas in Alaska, but the Salmon run was early this year. Finally someone on the platform shouted “I see something” and sure enough a large brown bear descending to the river to fish. It was the only one to appear but it made it worthwhile to get a few pictures of this bear.

PenAir at Anchorage Airport

Our flight to King Salmon

Our stewardess

King Salmon Airport…A real treat

Our ride to Brooks Falls

Getting ready for the baggage.

Katmai Air…Mosquito Capitol of the Katmai peninsula.

I dare you to take his stick.

On the way!

Finally we made it.

Security gate, they told us the bears couldn’t open the gate.

How about a 4X4 school bus.

Lined up and waiting.

The Salmon were there…where are the bears.

More Salmon.

A nice one.

Finally he arrived.

Majestic!

Searching for fish.

I see you too.

All the big dogs lined up. I am not on this level.

I know he’s down there somewhere!

Our pilot.

Driving from Alesyka to our first boondock camping night. What is Boondocking?  Boondocking is free camping, generally out in the boondocks.

Log World…just before Bird Creek

This Octopus marked the driveway to Log World…Beautiful!

Bird Creek…Fishing for Salmon.

A good catch…but he wouldn’t share.

One man raft.

Fishing

Fire Weed

Fishing

A resort worth remembering…set in the beautiful mountains of Alaska. It is situated off  the Old Seward Highway just a few miles from Anchorage. The Alyeska Aerial Tram is a three-to-seven minute scenic ride from The Hotel Alyeska to 2,300 ft in elevation and the top of Mt. Alyeska.

This is the resort hotel.

On the way to the tram.

Our car arriving.

A view from the top.

Watching a car arrive at the top.

Looking down on the hotel and some hikers that were brave enough to hike up the mountain.

I know some of you are probably wondering what has happened to us, but for the last three days we have been south of Anchorage touring the Kenai Peninsula and in these areas cell phone and internet coverage are hard to come by. We have seen some beautiful country but now we are in Anchorage now and it’s like any other large city, good connections. But before we started our exploration we picked up our motor-home. We thought it was really nice what do you think. Which one do you think we rented?

This is your first choice…is this our Motor-home?

This is your second choice…yea or nay.

If you really stretch your imagination you could consider this a motor-home if you carry a tent in the side car…so is this the one.

OK, do you think I paid someone to use the motor-home for this picture or is this the one.

We will be posting photos from the Kenai trip in the next few days, so keep watching.

Airplanes, don’t you just love em’. Personally I love the take offs and landings, for me it’s a rush, but its hard to put into a photograph, so I will share a few from the DFW airport and on the plane.

Valerie will probably kill me for putting this one on the blog.

I think the cabin pressure had the altitude messed up.

Alaska Ice Flow

Making the turn to the Anchorage runway.