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Day 10 - From Homer to Seward

Day 10 started with a lot of rain at night, which made packing up the tent much harder than hoped for. The rain kept pouring down while we travelled up the Sterling Highway towards Kenai, where we intended to do a short surprise-stop to visit some… Read more

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Essay Published August 15, 2014

Day 9 - Homer

After a nice breakfast with Bagels and Cream Cheese we walked out to the Homer Spit. The view from the top of that short strip of land was incredible, since we basically had a 360° view around Kachemak Bay. The weather was OK, it wasn't very cold and it… Read more

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Day 8 - The Kenai Peninsula

The start of our second week in Alaska also marked the beginning of our second road trip. This time we're not going up into interior Alaska, but rather down south to visit the Kenai Peninsula. With a pop-up trailer attached to the huge car we started our… Read more

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Day 7 - Eagle River

On Sunday we joined our host family at church and used to rest of the day for regeneration ;) That meant some raspberry-picking and a lot of doing nothing. We did take a walk through Eaglewood though, that is the neighborhood around where we're staying… Read more

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Day 6 - Trip back to Eagle River

Our day #6 in Alaska started really early as we wanted to go pick blueberries again before we had to leave Tok. We got up at 5 o'clock to do so, and after about one and a half hours of picking we ended up having a whole bucket of blueberries that we got… Read more

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Day 5 - Going nuts with the GoKart and the Muklukland

The second day in Tok did also start quite uneventful. As we already told you, we picked lots of lots of blueberries on our way back home from Shen. If you want to use those tasty little blue things for a cake (Donna made a yummy coffeecake) you’re… Read more

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Day 4 - Four Mile Lake, Moose and the ice-cream-drop

Our first day in Tok started off rather uneventful. Later we went to the Tetlin Wildlife Refuge InfoCenter to find out about the bugs that had bothered us the day before. After some back and forth we found out what they were. Wait for it. Firebugs. Some… Read more

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Day 3 - Trip to Tok

On our third day, we did our first "road trip", which lead us to the famous city Tok. Since the roads in Alaska aren’t as crowded as the german ones we’re used to, we had to prepare for every circumstance which could occur. So we packed all our… Read more

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Day 2 - Mile Hi

As the weather was absolutely beautiful we took the opportunity to do a real hike up "Mile Hi" today. Read more

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Essay Published August 6, 2014

Day 1

Sadly we didn't have the greatest weather for our first day in Eagle River, AK, and therefore couldn't do much outside. We visited Walmart instead. Three times. It is only a ten minute walk away from where we're staying, and alas, even though we're with… Read more

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The Journey Begins

Yesterday we started our trip to Alaska from Frankfurt Airport. We went through check-in and all security procedures without any trouble or delays and then waited at the probably farthest away gate to finally board our plane and start the journey. When… Read more

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