DAY 5 - BOOT CAMP PART 2

Up at 5:30 and on the “bus” for our Tundra Tour at 7:00 🤪.  Wait…since we were going on a “bus” were there bathrooms in the Tundra?  The Tundra Tour was a guided trip into Denali National Park.  It was WELL worth the early rise as we were surrounded by amazing scenery the entire day.  We saw five bears…not just plain ole bears but GRIZZLY BEARS, skads of caribou, ground squirrels, Dall sheep, a wolf, and a host of other animals and birds.  Here are some pics…

The park rule is that the tour buses cannot let passengers off within 1/2 mile of a grizzly bear.  There was one instance when our tour bus driver told us all to hurry up and get back in the bus as a bear ambled down the hill toward us 😳.   We, thankfully, never go up close and personal with a grizzly but then again I didn’t get a very good pic of one either…

Interesting kind of “over the top” hairdo…. Guess the only way to duplicate this would be to stand in 40 knot winds and have the photographer NOT tell you to do something with your hair 😬

Or maybe I should wear a hat…



Oh, and here is that kind of “beachy” look….  And CTM trying to act like he doesn’t know who I am…

The moral to this story is look at the scenery…not the subjects! 

As if we hadn’t had enough CTM and I had booked a self-guided jeep tour of Denali National Park at 4:30 not knowing we were going to spend 6 hours on a bus touring the park earlier.  That being said, after a lot of “where are we going to go in this freaking jeep at 4:30” the answer became clear very fast!  Let’s drive to Healy (only a 15 minute drive) and go to the 49th State Brewing! Hurry up…let’s go! 

 After all, now that my stretch pants are on the top of my suitcase I can have another yummo bowl of that seafood chowder! 

Fresh halibut tacos for CTM…



Fresh salmon bowl for L & L…

And…a bonus…the actual prop from the movie “Into The Wild”, the true story of Christopher McCandless living in the Alaskan wilderness, was outside the 49th State Brewery…

Headed back south to the lodge for an early to bed as we were headed to Whittier to board the ship on Sunday and you know what that means…BOOT CAMP AGAIN!! Catch you on the flip flop…

CJM