Day 34 The 4th of July in Homer

We have spent a very lazy day in Homer. We went for a walk this morning and then spent a couple of hours checking out shops on the spit and downtown for a tee shirt for a friend. We had lunch at the spit and then took a drive out NE of town for a bit before returning to the motorhome and spent a quiet afterno0on watching everyone play on the beach.

One distraction of the day was watching Mt Augustine spew steam all day with more this afternoon. The volcano is one of the most active in the Aleutian chain and is located across Cook Inlet 75 miles SW of here.

We also had company for a short while this afternoon. Butch and Lori Offord, whom we met in Skagway, spent time with in Haines, and saw a couple of times since stopped by. The are parked further out on the spit and are headed for Anchorage tomorrow to have their m/h repaired. Again we are headed in the same general direction so we will see them again.After grilling halibut and salmon we invited our neighbors over for a fire for a couple of hours and finally succumbed to the wind and cool temperatures and settled for a TV and warm m/h for the evening.

Because of the long daylight hours most communities here do not have fireworks; they loose their impact in bright daylight. We will have to settle for a little flag waving as we also missed the local parade at 6:00PM. Hopefully the cool weather will also put a damper on the impromptu fireworks we had last night around 12:30AM! Oh well, it wouldn’t be the 4^th without them.