Back in Minnesota

Back in Minnesota

Traveling
We are back at our Minnesota location as of Aug 30th.  Hard to believe we have been to Alaska and back.  They say that times flies when you are having fun or time flies as you age and both of those are true for Joe and me. We thought we would recap some of the highlights of our Alaskan adventure Have been in the mini for 112 days and still counting (May 13th until present) In Alaska 53 days Drove 9,608 miles from St. Louis Park, MN on May 26th to St. Louis Park, MN on Aug 30th Dry camped (no electricity or water) 30 of the 97 days So many animals and birds   -  Wood buffalo and Yellowstone buffalo,  Elk,    Pronghorn deer,  Big horn sheep,  Moose and babies, Antelope, Mountain goats, Dall sheep…
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Joe Gets His Wish

Joe Gets His Wish

Traveling
Joe has been asking people as we travel if they have seen a grizzly along the road.  Probably 50% of the people have seen one.   Joe said that is his only disappointment on our Alaska trip even though we did the bear adventure.    He just wants to see that big grizzly walking alongside the road.  Well he finally got his wish.  About twenty miles from the Canadian border on our way to Haines we finally saw that grizzly.  We slowed down to get a picture and of course the bear turned around and headed into the woods.  We got a nice picture of its back-end but at least we saw one.  Little did we know that a few days later Joe would have a much to close encounter with a…
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Our Alaska Bear Viewing Adventure

Our Alaska Bear Viewing Adventure

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As we started really planning our Alaska adventure we talked about things we wanted to do.  We realize this is our one and only time taking a trip to Alaska so we wanted to do “those Alaska” things.   We talked about taking a bear viewing tour but having a fear of flying I had a hard time seeing myself in a small plane.  Joe started checking on a boat bear viewing tour.  We did find one but you had to be on the boat for 6 hours.  Then we started thinking about what happens if the water is rough.  Six hours on rough water would not be a lot of fun.  We started looking at plane tours and started talking to people who had gone on them and well it…
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