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August 19, 2009, a Wednesday
Wasilla (D&RA) to Denali Highway, Alaska, USA
— My CF cards arrived and we got on the road again
Pleasant weather with partly cloudy skies. Had a normal breakfast. Prepared the large TIFF files for my images selected to be semi-finalists in the Nature's Best photography competition. (You may read more about my Nature's Best semi-final images on August 18, 2009.) Prepared the FedEx shipment to my stock agent. I went inside to start a small load of laundry, and RA asked if we had felt the earthquake about 10 minutes earlier. We hadn't, and it was a 5.2 down near Hope, AK. Topped off the RV fresh water tank. Worked up caption information for my Nature's Best semi-finalist images, then started to FTP the TIFFs to them.
Had lunch at 12:20 of my normal ham and Swiss on rye with a glass of Coca Cola Classic followed by a banana and an apple. Cleaned up some files on my laptop, then vacuumed out the RV. We like to take advantage of the electricity while we're plugged in to run the vacuum cleaner because it sucks too many amps to run off batteries. If it's an emergency, we can run the vacuum cleaner off the generator. UPS delivered my CF cards around 3:00. I opened up the package to get the UPC labels off the boxes so I could send in the rebate form, then finished prepping the RV to move. We went inside to say goodbye to RA and Tootie. We left at 3:47 with me in the RV and J in the Jeep.
I stopped at the Wasilla Post Office to mail the SanDisk CF rebate, a FedEx location to ship out the DVDs to my stock agent, and then a Chevron to load up the RV with gas. The guy who fixed our tail pipe pulled in to get some gas too.
J had stopped at the Wasilla Fred Meyer to pick up some last-minute things and then at All About Herbs to pick up some cinnamon oil for her tea.
We met up in the parking lot near All About Herbs to hook up the Jeep. We left at 4:43 and started heading North on the Parks Hwy.
We stopped in Trapper Creek at 6:06 so I could go online through my USB stick, at National Access speed, to take care of some things online. J wasn't hungry, so we didn't have dinner like I thought we would. We left at 6:44 and continued heading North on the Parks Hwy.
I had two Clif Bars for the main course of dinner, then listened to an episode of Car Talk. Went by a porcupine by the side of the road.
We stopped at the Denali View North area around 7:45, and J started reheating some of her leftover minestrone soup. We had dinner while looking out the RV dinette window at Mt McKinley — uh, make that "at clouds completely obscuring Mt McKinley." Mt McKinley is the highest mountain in North America at 20,320 ft (6194m), and its 18,000-ft (5486m) rise from the 2000-ft plains is one of the greatest in the world. Mt. Everest, at 29,028 ft (8848m), rises a mere 11,000 ft (3353m) from the Tibetan Plateau. It is surrounded by mountains in the Alaska Range that are "only" 10,000 to 15,000 ft (3050 to 4575m) — no wonder the Athabascan Indians called it Denali, or "The Great One," or even "The Great One that laughs at the height of its brothers." We left at 8:35 and continued heading North on the Parks Hwy.
I finished listening to the episode of Car Talk. We turned East onto the Denali Hwy around 9:30. Saw two snowshoe hares by the side of the road.
We stopped at a boondocking spot around 9:40. I unhooked the Jeep to get ready for tomorrow morning. Did some computer work, then went to bed.
Had lunch at 12:20 of my normal ham and Swiss on rye with a glass of Coca Cola Classic followed by a banana and an apple. Cleaned up some files on my laptop, then vacuumed out the RV. We like to take advantage of the electricity while we're plugged in to run the vacuum cleaner because it sucks too many amps to run off batteries. If it's an emergency, we can run the vacuum cleaner off the generator. UPS delivered my CF cards around 3:00. I opened up the package to get the UPC labels off the boxes so I could send in the rebate form, then finished prepping the RV to move. We went inside to say goodbye to RA and Tootie. We left at 3:47 with me in the RV and J in the Jeep.
I stopped at the Wasilla Post Office to mail the SanDisk CF rebate, a FedEx location to ship out the DVDs to my stock agent, and then a Chevron to load up the RV with gas. The guy who fixed our tail pipe pulled in to get some gas too.
J had stopped at the Wasilla Fred Meyer to pick up some last-minute things and then at All About Herbs to pick up some cinnamon oil for her tea.
We met up in the parking lot near All About Herbs to hook up the Jeep. We left at 4:43 and started heading North on the Parks Hwy.
We stopped in Trapper Creek at 6:06 so I could go online through my USB stick, at National Access speed, to take care of some things online. J wasn't hungry, so we didn't have dinner like I thought we would. We left at 6:44 and continued heading North on the Parks Hwy.
I had two Clif Bars for the main course of dinner, then listened to an episode of Car Talk. Went by a porcupine by the side of the road.
We stopped at the Denali View North area around 7:45, and J started reheating some of her leftover minestrone soup. We had dinner while looking out the RV dinette window at Mt McKinley — uh, make that "at clouds completely obscuring Mt McKinley." Mt McKinley is the highest mountain in North America at 20,320 ft (6194m), and its 18,000-ft (5486m) rise from the 2000-ft plains is one of the greatest in the world. Mt. Everest, at 29,028 ft (8848m), rises a mere 11,000 ft (3353m) from the Tibetan Plateau. It is surrounded by mountains in the Alaska Range that are "only" 10,000 to 15,000 ft (3050 to 4575m) — no wonder the Athabascan Indians called it Denali, or "The Great One," or even "The Great One that laughs at the height of its brothers." We left at 8:35 and continued heading North on the Parks Hwy.
I finished listening to the episode of Car Talk. We turned East onto the Denali Hwy around 9:30. Saw two snowshoe hares by the side of the road.
We stopped at a boondocking spot around 9:40. I unhooked the Jeep to get ready for tomorrow morning. Did some computer work, then went to bed.