Wednesday, 24 August 2011 Silver Salmon Lodge - Day two We awoke this morning thinking just how much better could today get to be! Breakfast was fantastic with an excellent array of cooked food, this was not buffet style, but table setting with fresh muffins, eggs, hash browns and assortments, including oatmeal porridge if you wanted. Now after all this we were asked what did we want to do, Barry and Vikki were going Halibut fishing for the afternoon and Sh...

Tuesday, 23 August 2011 Kenai, Alaska - Silver Salmon Lodge Woke up this morning and got ourselves all set up for getting to Soldotna Airport for the trip to Silver Salmon Creek Lodge. This was the next big must do after Denali and so we were excited and hoped it was going to be a great time. We were out of the hotel and on our way before 08:00. The stay at the Hotel had been a very recouperative and Iwas hoping that it boded well for the next few days. The ...

Sunday, 21 August 2011 Kenai, Alaska Awoke this morning to overcast, and feeling slightly better for the nights rest. The hotel is great, fridge was a little noisy overnight, but this place is good. The day was spent almost entirely inside the hotel room, warm dry, the room is large has a kitchenette and all the necessary utensils. So we were able to cook, eat, internet and relax. The big activity for today was to cross the road, walk through Home Depot...

Saturday, 20 August 2011 Homer, Alaska - Kenai, Alaska Awoke this morning to rain, in fact awoke throughout the night to rain. After a walk up to the showers it was off to the two sisters for breakfast again. This morning was a tough morning as my cold had deteriorated overnight to be quite bad. We packed up and went back to the two sisters café for another coffee and pastry morning. Given the health issues of the day before we gave up on Soldovia, next tri...

Friday, 19 August 2011 Homer, Alaska Awoke this morning to rain, in fact awoke throughout the night to rain. After a restack and drive to the showers it was off to the two sisters www.twosistersbakery.net/ for breakfast. The decision was prompted on the thought of trying to cook breakfast in the rain and the recommendation from some fellow travellers. This turned into another great choice as the pastries were great and the coffee was good to boot. Free w...