Our next stop was Valdez (population 3,985), and we drove there the same day we toured Matanuska Glacier. We followed the Glenn Highway (AK 1) until it intersected with the Richardson Highway (AK 4) just past Glennallen (population 439). While the scenery along AK 4 through the Tsina River valley was purported to be the…
I planned our route for the remainder of Hanna’s visit, before we departed Palmer. The Matanuska Glacier was only an hour east and on the way to our next stop in Valdez. I reserved a 2-hour glacier tour for 10 AM, and we headed out under mostly sunny skies. As had become routine, the scenery…
Our next stop was Jasper, AB Canada, and until I checked out our route several days before heading north, I had no idea this meant driving the world famous (according to Canadians anyway) 140-mile Icefields Parkway. There were ten primary sites along the parkway identified as “most visited” by tourists, although the views of the…
We never intended to spend this amount of time wintering in Carrollton, TX. Nope! We arrived on 1 October to attend Jon and Katherine’s wedding two weeks later (see blog titled The Bunner-Hearty Wedding, 15 October 2023), then expected we’d take care of all our personal issues (see below), and return to the road by…
A Thanksgiving with a sprinkle of sadness. Our first Thanksgiving as a married couple was spent with Ran in Saudi Arabia and me in Houston with my usual group of friends. It was our second Thanksgiving that was most memorable. November 1982. Ran had been assigned to Ramstein AFB Germany. He arrived at the beginning…
