Good Friends - Week 2!

After our trip to Seward, the only thing to do was to go North!  Our Anchorage friends, Mary and Lance, told us about their RV rental trips, and we decided to take one, our first time, and travel to Denali.  Although Brian and I had flown around Denali from Talkeetna, we'd never been that far north or traveled into the park.  So we loaded up on Friday and headed that way. This one gave us plenty of room - 30' was the only one they had left!

We stayed at the Montana Creek Campground after heading into Talkeetna for "Live at Five" great music on the green and dinner at "The Twister" - Denali Brewing Company.

Saturday morning we drove up as far as the Byers Lake Campground after stopping to see our friends, Klaus and Laura in Trapper Creek.  Klaus made these beautiful bee hives, and our hosts made us coffee, dandelion root tea, and horsetail tea to try for refreshments and great conversation.

At Byers Lake, we stayed put for Saturday and took a 3 hour or so hike around the lake - great views of Denali, mostly flat, and a gorgeous sunny day!

We ended the day with a Copper River salmon filet that Klaus insisted we take with us . . . SO delicious - and card games in the RV - easy to stay up late with the light lasting so late in the night!