Share Essay Published August 24, 2014 Day 16 - Thunder Bird Falls Since we used most of our day 16 to get everything ready for our road trip to Denali we didn't have time to do big excursions. Instead we went to the Thunder Bird Falls that are fairly close by Eagle River. The area is located in the Chugach State Park… Read more ak alaska chugach state park creek falls landscape thunder bird falls thunderbird trail usa See more in Alaska
Share Essay Published August 23, 2014 Day 15 - Downtown Anchorage Since we have already travelled all over the place but hadn't really been to Anchorage itself, we decided that would be on our schedule for today. So we went downtown to see the city. It turned out that even though Anchorage might be quite big, and is… Read more ak alaska anchorage usa See more in Alaska
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Share Essay Published August 20, 2014 Day 13 & 14 - Weekend This weekend we didn't do very much, but instead used the time to regenerate and plan our next trip. Next week we'll be going up to Denali National Park where we'll hopefully get to see Mt. McKinley and a lot of other beautiful landscape. Maybe even some… Read more ak alaska landscape travel usa See more in Alaska
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Share Essay Published August 19, 2014 Day 12 - The Eagle River Nature Center For our first day back in Eagle River we wanted to do something, but somewhere in the area, so we drove out to the Eagle River Nature Center. They have a bunch of nice hiking trails out there where we planned to spend our day. Since it was cloudy and we… Read more ak alaska eagle river eagle river nature center hike mushroom trail trees usa walk See more in Alaska
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Share Essay Published August 16, 2014 Day 11 - Puffins, Exit Glacier and more clouds Even though it had rained hard all night, in the morning it started to clear up and we did even see a bit of blue sky for a while. Since the weather conditions didn't seem stable we decided to go for a indoor-activity today. Therefore we visited the… Read more ak alaska bald eagle birds clouds eagle exit glacier glacier landscape mountain puffins sealife travel usa view See more in Alaska
Share Essay Published August 16, 2014 Day 10 - From Homer to Seward Day 10 started with a lot of rain at night, which made packing up the tent much harder than hoped for. The rain kept pouring down while we travelled up the Sterling Highway towards Kenai, where we intended to do a short surprise-stop to visit some… Read more ak alaska bald eagle bay camping clouds eagle homer landscape moose moose cow mountains mud ocean rain sea seward travel trip usa See more in Alaska
Share Essay Published August 15, 2014 Day 9 - Homer After a nice breakfast with Bagels and Cream Cheese we walked out to the Homer Spit. The view from the top of that short strip of land was incredible, since we basically had a 360° view around Kachemak Bay. The weather was OK, it wasn't very cold and it… Read more ak alaska bald eagle fireweed homer homer spit kachemak bay landscape mountain seabird travel trip usa view See more in Alaska
Share Essay Published August 13, 2014 Day 8 - The Kenai Peninsula The start of our second week in Alaska also marked the beginning of our second road trip. This time we're not going up into interior Alaska, but rather down south to visit the Kenai Peninsula. With a pop-up trailer attached to the huge car we started our… Read more ak alaska anchorage bald eagle cook inlet eagle highway homer homer spit journey kenai kenai peninsula landscape mountain peninsula seward highway spit sterling highway travel trip turnagain arm usa See more in Alaska
Share Essay Published August 13, 2014 Day 7 - Eagle River On Sunday we joined our host family at church and used to rest of the day for regeneration ;) That meant some raspberry-picking and a lot of doing nothing. We did take a walk through Eaglewood though, that is the neighborhood around where we're staying… Read more ak alaska usa See more in Alaska
Share Essay Published August 12, 2014 Day 6 - Trip back to Eagle River Our day #6 in Alaska started really early as we wanted to go pick blueberries again before we had to leave Tok. We got up at 5 o'clock to do so, and after about one and a half hours of picking we ended up having a whole bucket of blueberries that we got… Read more ak alaska blueberry eagle river glenn highway highway journey landscape tok travel trip usa See more in Alaska
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Share Album Published August 10, 2014 Day 4 - Shen A trip to Shen, including seeing Moose, watching the Ice Cream Drop, and collecting Blueberries ak alaska four mile lake landscape moose tok travel usa See more in Alaska
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