Homer, AK

Writing as I watch the waves role in from Kachemak Bay. If it were about 30 degrees warmer people could be playing in the water. Right now, everyone is wearing coats and just walking along the water. We got one of the better camp sites, right on the beach. Den and Ed are playing in the rocks, which is pretty much the composition of the beach. This whole trip, Ed's main entertainment has been playing with rocks.

Today we hauled from just north of Seward all the way to Homer. It was 6 hours total including several stops, so about 4 hours of real driving. Today Eddie let us know it was too long to be in the car. We are thinking of staying here through tomorrow afternoon just so he doesn't have to get in the carseat again for a while. On the way over, we stopped along the way to view the Kenai River and Russian River, renown for their salmon fishing. Unfortunately we are between runs and not much is going on, except a bunch of dejected fishermen. There are exceptions, but again, not much to see.

Homer is sprawling, with no real downtown, just a bunch of little concentrations of businesses. We're camping on the Spit, at a place called the Homer Spit Campground, I'm sure you can google it. What I've decided to do is eventaully file a report with pictures for each day, right now, I have a couple entries ready to go, so will fill in.

We've been talking about what we'll do on a return trip to Alaska when Eddie is either older, or completely out of the nest. We've certainly had a great experience, but missed doing things like bear watching, more fishing, and there have been several float trips that would be fun. I'd say 90% of the rivers we've seen flow like they are at permanent flood stage. It's pretty cool to see, the water flowing at such a good clip--seems like it would make for nice float trips--just not for a baby. This week as flown by, but now that we've gotten the whole RV travel thing under our belts, I would love a summer to just drive around an RV in Alaska, staying at places as long as I felt. But that will have to wait for retirement...