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Awesomely beautiful little city of 4000. 7 miles of paved bike paths, home of Prince William Sound, loads of hiking & mtn. biking trails.
A list - Would love to return for a couple of weeks during their big fishing season - August! Witnessed a very petitte gal come off a fishing charter w/a 266lb. Halibut! Can any of you top that? Great Karma in Valdez! Vicky learned to can salmon-yippee!

Got news that the King Salmon are running in the Gulkana River, so we switched gears & headed down Hwy 4 towards Glenn Allen junction. Found a outfitter w/a rustic campground (no water/sewer/electric) on the Gulkana river. After talking w/a few locals, Jimboni raced down to the river & proceeded to catch a 30lb King Salmon. Our fellow campers from Oregon helped us clean & filet it. Then, we took the salmon roe & curred it for future bait.
Since it's stays light most of the night, Jimboni went out again 130am - caught another 20lb King! Yippee! We dry camped here for 3 days

Whitehorse to Tok is almost 400 miles, so we stopped @ a Provincial Campground about 1/2 way. Nice campsite on the river-dry camped. Also stopped @ a burl wood carving place called Scullywood. What a character! He's doin' what he loves - making beautiful bowls out of knots from the trees. The place is full of interesting stuff - "Uneek Today, Anteek Tommorrow" Scully was the hi-lite of our day! Arrived in Tok after a very slow go on washboard, gravel, dusty, potholled, frost heave roads! We rig was filthy dirty as we crossed the border & arrived in Tok. Fortunately, our campground had a RV wash-yippee! Nice campground w/all the amenities - even internet & cell phone coverage!!
We going to drive our jeep up to Dawson City (we heard the road was rough, so thought we'd make better time scooting up in the car!

Ahhh...our Alaska Trip has officially begun! Yippee!
1st stop - Seattle to visit Blair Barcellos. We ended up w/2 bonus surprises.
On Saturday we met Lee Coffee & his daughter Carrie (who also lives in Seattle) @ Ku Thai in the Ballard district of Seattle. Great food & company. Lee just happened to be visiting Carrie for the weekend, sent us an email & wah lah we hooked up for dinner!