We spent a great day with the Phillips Sunday. Rick and Jeff got to enjoy great weather as they played a round of golf on the Elmendorf AFB golf course, acknowledged to be the best in the state of
Alaska. The course in bounded on one side by the ship canal and it was easy to get distracted while walking along the banks by the thousands of sockeye and King salmon migrating up the canal and jumping its fish ladders.
Elmendorf also is home to a couple of injured bald eagles who will released shortly.
We returned to Rick and Jo’s for a great dinner. One of the neighbors had spent the weekend halibut fishing and if you are an
Alaska resident who fishes your freezer is already full of halibut so you knock on several of your neighbors doors and offer them 10-20 pounds of fresh halibut fillets. (Only in
Alaska!)
Rick cut some into chunks and deep fried them in their new cooker while Jeff and Jo grilled a couple of pounds on cedar planks.
What a feast! By next year Rick should be an old
Alaska hand and we will be calling to arrange some being shipped to the lower 48.
Our plans were to leave Anchorage this morning headed for Denali but Forum friends Dave and Jeannette Greavis were coming through town on their way to Homer and it also started raining during the night so we decided to spend another day here catching up on errands and laundry.
We had a late breakfast and compared notes with the Reavises. Since we left them in Dawson Creek they have done our route in reverse by going through Whitehorse, Dawson City, Fairbanks and Denali while we visited Valdez, the Kenai Peninsula, and Anchorage. They should have arrived in Homer this afternoon while we are leaving in the morning for Denali.
To try and repay Jo and Rick for their wonderful hospitality we took them and Hunter to The Sourdough Restaurant for dinner and a humorous skit by “Dusty” Sourdough. We said our good byes for the second time and returned to the m/h to be greeted by a cow moose and her two calves who decided a city park well within the city boundaries would be a good place for a 10:00PM dinner. We spent a good half hour being entertained by the calves antics as mom did a good job of trimming the bushes in our section of the park.
Tomorrow we hope for good weather as we head for Denali.
We spent a great day with the Phillips Sunday. Rick and Jeff got to enjoy great weather as they played a round of golf on the Elmendorf AFB golf course, acknowledged to be the best in the state of 
Elmendorf also is home to a couple of injured bald eagles who will released shortly.
Rick cut some into chunks and deep fried them in their new cooker while Jeff and Jo grilled a couple of pounds on cedar planks. What a feast! By next year Rick should be an old 
We had a late breakfast and compared notes with the Reavises. Since we left them in 
