Hi All: Finally got a couple photo's to load on the Blogger. It took about 6 minutes each, so the Verizon Thingy sure is slow out here in Palmer, AK. Above is one of those Musk Ox things. It weighs about 800 pounds and does not have a nice attitude so the tour guide told us. Still strange that the only thing they are good for is some real fine hair that grows next to their bodies each fall, and they comb it out each spring and make scarves etc out of it. It's supposed to be real warm, and is what keeps the Musk Ox from freezing each winter??

Above is a photo of the potato patch at the visitors center in Palmer. The do a lot of growing around here. It seems that during the great depression they decided to send a bunch of folks from Minnesota, and other cold climate places to this area to settle new communities and farm lands. Seems it must have worked, as Palmer is the biggest growing area in Alaska for veggies etc, and the stuff that grows here in their short summer. Last years largest cabbage was 127 pounds. Not sure what they would do with a cabbage that big though. The biggest carrot was 29 pounds. Not sure what to do with that either. Might be able to make lots of little ones out if it??

Above are a couple "Bald Eagles" sitting on a light pole. There are a lot of them around in Alaska. Is neat to just see them any old place.

We leave here in the morning after I do the "Dump" thing at the "Dump Station" here. We are going to Tok, AK about 280 miles North. Will be there for two nights then cross the Canadian Border from there in to Yukon, Canada. The roads at first are the worst roads on the trip. No way to go around them either...

Well, better go out and hook up the car so we can get a head start at the Dump Station in the morning before everyone gets up and wants to leave at the same time. Will be about 51 degrees in the morning. Won't be long now when we will miss this nice cool weather.

Semper Fi

Don, Amy & Pharaoh...