July 24. Stayed at Allison Point one more day as we wanted to move to Blueberry during nice weather. Saw an Escape 17 and a small one- maybe a 13, while in town.
July 25. Beautiful day! We are at Blueberry for two nights. Couldn't have picked a more perfect camp and campsite. As we were finishing our set up we had a wonderful surprise as Grady and Shirley Collier from Alabama pulled in. We met them last March at the Alabama rally. We went to their campsite later for coffee and met another fellow camper who is a teacher at Port Lion near Kodiak . It was so much fun visiting and hearing stories from all. Matt, the teacher, was so great to listen to as he shared his teaching and traveling experiences. We were sorry to see the evening end.
Matt was going on to Cordova for a marathon run on Saturday and the Collier's were leaving in the morning.
July 26. Our friends left at around 12:30. We took pictures of them and vise versa. We are truly blessed to have met so many wonderful people in our travels and to have such a gorgeous day today.
We were able to use our grill and do what we love best- camp.
July 27. Got on the road early and now heading to Haines. Passed through customs at Beaver Creek and had a great breakfast at Burwash Landing Lodge. The roads are pretty bad. Road work is every few miles. Slow traveling. Camped for the night at Lake Creek Yukon Gov. Camp. Buggy and rain early, so we were not out side much.
July 28. Now in Haines and I have to say our truck and camper have never been this filthy! This time we wanted rain to clean them up, but it did not happen. Got to our destination- Chilkoot Lake State rec area and there were no vacant camp sites, but as it turned out, our friends, John and Barbara Harris from Lubbock are here and we stayed in their pull thru for the night. Had a great time with them cooking burgers on the grill, drinking a little wine and having a campfire. A fellow camper came over- Mike and his beautiful dog, Pretty Girl. Up till 11:00 and it actually did get dark for a change.
July 29. Barbara over to let us know a pull thru opened up. We moved and are so happy to have such a great site on the water. Beautiful mountains in the background. John came by later to warn us of a bear sighted in the area. We went in to read as it was a little cool outside. We will be here till next Sunday morning.
July 30. Up late. Found out from neighbors a bear was by our fire ring and from John that bears had played havoc with several tents last night. Darn all I want is a picture! Went to town for wifi and a little tourist activities.
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