Glenallen again

Thursday, August 5 -  Rain, rain, rain.  We woke up to rain again this morning, so we had to de-camp in the raincoats again.  Collins made a quick trip back to Wasilla first thing to get an o-ring for his faucet because it decided to keep leaking this morning.  And we stopped for propane and a few groceries before we left Palmer, but we actually made a 145-mile  run (under protest from Joe).  We are back in Glenallen, which is where we connect with the highway to Valdez.

It rained pretty much all day, with just a few moments where it stopped.  The clouds were pretty laying against the mountains, and we drove through some fog or clouds sometimes.

It was not a picture day, although we passed the Matanuska Glacier again.  I did take a couple pictures of Sheep Mountain when we made our lunch stop.  The mountain is very colorful from the mineral deposits in it, and Dall sheep are supposedly often found here -- but we didn't see any.  The sheep like to lick the minerals.

 We got to Glenallen about 3:00 and got set up, during a short break in the rain.  After dinner, we had our nightly card game, and watched a squirrel in the trees right beside our RV. 

Mazie had trouble with her new cell phone -- it will not allow her to make or receive a call, so after we quit playing cards, I called Verizon on my phone and tried to get it fixed.  However, after about 45 minutes on the phone, they still were not able to make it work, so they have put through a "trouble ticket," and are supposed to continue to look into it.  We'll see what happens on that.

This morning that cute little squirrel was playing soccer on top of our RV with the pine cones it must have carried up there.  Joe got up and tried to get it to go away.  He even ran the front slide in and out a few times, trying to scare it away.  It that seemed to work, unless he rolled the squirrel up in the slide (another possibility). 

We are splitting off from the Brundiges again and heading to Valdez Friday morning.  Since they spent a couple days there with her sister, they are not going to make that run again.  We'll get back together with them in a couple days.  We have been told there is a new military family campground in Valdez so we are going to try to stay there, and we probably won't have internet access.  It's a new military camp (we think they took over a private campground sometime in the last year), so we'll just have to see if we can get in and what they offer.