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Rambler’s Blog – Chuck's surprise 70th birthday trip - August 28th - September 12th

A word about this blog. It has been our goal in recent years’ lengthier travels to record for posterity a diary of travel stats, pictures, and personal reflections. So, when we can no longer indulge in trains, planes and automobiles we may relive fond memories. We have invited a few friends and family to ride along through this travel blog (a combo of blather and log), risking exposure to bad puns, spelling errors and sore feet complaints.

This blog reflects our celebration of Chuck's 70th birthday being celebrated a month early in which Pat, Brenna and Seth surprised Chuck with a fishing trip to Alaska, in which Seth will be his travel companion. The trip will start with a car ride to Chicago where they will catch an Alaska Airline flight to Anchorage. After spending a few days in Anchorage visiting Brenna, Zach and Dean, they will head out in a 30 ft RV to the Kenai Peninsula.

Chuck will blog off and on. You are welcome to join him and Seth as you will. Glad to know you're out there.

*They may not have daily access to Internet so updates may be delayed, but once they appear they will be in sequence.

*The blog includes pictures based on the day’s blog, sometimes delayed depending on schedule and access.

Thursday, September 5, 2019

Day 09 – September 5, 2019 Homer


We awake to a very cool morning, 42 degrees but also to some unfriendly camper who runs their generator at 5:00 am. Luckily it only lasted no more than 10 minutes. (Quite time in Camper ground is from 11:00 pm till 7:00 am), so we are able to go back to sleep and get up just after 7:00 am. We turn the RV Heat on to eliminate the chill, and start our generator to make coffee and charge devices.

After Coffee and some breakfast of choice, we take showers, and then Seth drives the RV to the Dump/freshwater refueling site. After recharging our fresh water, and parking the RV back into our spot, we head off to explore the Homer Spit boardwalks, as Seth has a short shopping list.

We finally end up at Land’s End early afternoon and have a few beers while soaking in the sun’s rays on their deck. As we are sitting there, we watch the Alaskan Ferry unload, and several people fishing the shoreline for flounder and various fishing boats going in and out of the harbor.








 We start making our way back to the RV, stopping at Salty Dog for a brew. After dropping things off at the RV, we head across the street to the oyster co-op, order up a dozen of fresh oysters and sit out on the patio enjoying the incoming tide and the oysters.


We verify the shop hours, as we are interested in purchasing more oysters when we head back towards Anchorage on Saturday. We make friends with the women running the co-op in regards to when they open, since we will be leaving earlier than their official time, she tells us what to do as she will sell us Oysters on Saturday before we leave.






We go back to the RV, catch up on email, world news and sports, and fix dinner. Tomorrow we go out on a ½ day fishing charter.


Wildlife seen today included sea otters, seals and several Bald eagles. Still no moose.Tomorrow will be another adventure.

Nighty night
Miles driven today:  ZERO, just walking