Knik Goose Bay Road starts out perpendicular to the Parks Highway, but swings right until it is 45 degrees to this principal artery. This was the road I needed to carry out my first order of business, which was to get photos I needed for the Sarah Palin History Tour. My right turn took me [...]

Finally, my time to vacate the Lake Lucille Bed and Breakfast came. I had my final Part I of breakfast in the kitchen, and packed my gear into the rental car. I then went to the dock to bid Lake Lucille a long final farewell. So many treasures on this lake I have seen and [...]

After Independence Mine and and my stops in Palmer and Wasilla Lake for the Sarah Palin History Tour, I stopped off at Señor Taco, because I was jonesing for Mexican food. From there, I returned to Lake Lucille Bed and Breakfast. I pulled the laptop out of the room, set it on a table on [...]

After returning from a glorious day at Flattop Mountain, with Chuck Heath, Jr. I went to enjoy the Civil Twilight on Lake Lucille and savor what had happened today and the days before. Alaska’s summer nights are truly amazing and spectacular. Tomorrow, I would be going to Independence Mine on my own, then some more [...]

My day concluded right where it had began – Lake Lucille. Some 15 hours ago, the lake was shrouded in pea soup fog. I had gone to and through Hatcher Pass from end to end and from a sweet spot on the lake saw my second double rainbow in as many days. The Schwabenhof parking [...]

As I traveled up the East Palmer-Wasilla Highway, I had come full circle…this road took me to and through Hatcher Pass and back out through Willow and back down the Parks into Wasilla, and now back toward Palmer. As I looked to the left, Hatcher Pass was under a major downpour. Yet, toward the right [...]

I stopped off at Mocha Moose for breakfast and ordered my usual: sausage, egg and cheese burrito, and a large Mocha spiked with orange. The large mocha has four shots of Good Morning Alaska as espresso. The burrito probably has four to six eggs in it. The Breakfast of Champions! From here, I stopped at [...]

I woke up in the morning to find Lake Lucille shrouded in advection fog (see page 15 on the link). Visibility was less than 1/8 of a mile. As the sun rose, the fog eventually lifted. This sequence captured it all. Today I would be going to the Mocha Moose, then straight to Hatcher Pass.

The rain continued well into Palmer, but just as I got to the area of the Alaska State Fair, it had stopped….My first order of business was to go on the Super Round-Up.