Friday July 16, 6:45 PM in Tok AK. Looked around Anchorage yesterday going to the visitors center and saw a great movie on the big earthquake of Good Friday 1964. It was the biggest earthquake ever recorded......9.3 and devastated several towns in AK., caused a title wave that also hit the lower 48 and killed a lot of people. Matt had called , he had looked on the Internet and found a place for us to g0 and eat in Anchorage.......Humphys. The 4 of us went and had a beer and a snack.......it is a local bar hangout. Then, Beth and I took Jerry and Carol to their hotel and said goodbye. It was hard to believe that our adventure together was over.... But Beth and I have a long way to go and needed some provisions so we stopped at a grocery store on our way back to the RV. When we got on the road again we saw a full grown moose( much taller than a cow) crossing a 4 lane highway in downtown Anchorage. It was stopping traffic and just slowly
walking around ignoring all the confusion was causing. Friday morning we got up early, broke camp and headed up the Tok cutoff. The weather was cool, rainy and foggy. The road was narrow, winding, not in good condition with a cliff on one side, no shoulders and no guardrail. Slow was the speed of the day. About half way to Tok the sun came out and the views were spectacular.....mountains, a glacier, many rivers and lakes. I really wanted to get further than Tok, but it was 4 pm and we knew we had good phone and Internet here so we decided to stay. Made roasted chicken, green beans and canned peaches for dinner( after a short happy hour in Jerry and Carols honor). Tomorrow we get into Canada where cell phone and computers don't always work and are expensive so you may not hear from us for a few days. All is well and we hopefully will be home in about 12 or 13 days,,,,,,, about 3700 miles mostly on 2 lane roads. We are looking foreword to seeing everyone but not looking foreword to the hot weather.