Adventures

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 to take back to Eagle River so we could have some blueberry pancakes in the future.

After that we started our long drive back "home". Even though we really looked hard we didn't see many wild animals, besides a young fox and some swans. The road led us back the same way that we had come, following Tok Cutoff and the Glen Highway, but we did stop at a few different picture locations and took more photos...

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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 unfortunately going to have to pull out all remaining stems and clean them first.

After cleaning the blueberries we took out the GoKart for a ride around the house, which was real fun. This is something you’re really not able to do in Germany that way. We also mounted the GoPro on it and got a video of the ride...

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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 bugs that lay their eggs in burning wood and coals – they will even singe their feet off doing so. There sure are some weird animals out there. Later in the day we drove out to 4-mile-lake. The lake is absolutely gorgeous, and even more so because we had a really beautiful day with a lot of sun and a perfect sky...

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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 stuff, loaded the Excursion and got on Glenn Highway. We were heading into the direction of the next big city of Alaska, Fairbanks. Driving through Alaska is pretty scenic. The road led us through a variety of countrysides and we could experience the diversity of what Alaska can provide. The landscape is so beautiful and we had some really amazing views...

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Day 2 - Mile Hi

As the weather was absolutely beautiful we took the opportunity to do a real hike today. We were told that the walk up to "Mile Hi" was only a short hike of about thirty minutes, but it ended up being a real steep mountain trail and we did also take a lot longer than those thirty minutes. There were quite a view very good photo opportunities along the way and we stopped several times just to take in the scenery with our hearts and minds and especially our cameras...

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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 real americans, we did walk there all three times.
We had some trouble making our credit cards work and were a little bit worried we might be in Alaska for three weeks, but without any money. In the end it turned out that we could get cash though, so everything is set for our trips to Tok and the Kenai peninsula this and the following week.

When the weather did finally clear up a bit we went to a viewpoint partly up Mt.Baldy and then back another way to take a little walk down a hidden path to an absolutely beautiful waterfall...

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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 boarding time came our plane was again located pretty far away from the gate, so we had to take a bus to board it. You can imagine our surprise as we came closer and realized the plane we would be traveling in was covered in "Janosch"-Characters...

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