It’s been a while since I’ve been able to post anything. Internet access has been spotty at best.

Freightliner had the part, and we left Anchorage on Wednesday, heading for Seward on the Kenai Peninsula. On Thursday, we took a boat (ship?) into the Kenai Fjords National Park. Most of this park is accessible only by water. It was a foggy, rainy, mystical day, and the icebergs floating on the flat calm water were almost eerie, especially after the bumpy ride getting to them.

On Friday, we headed off-grid again, into the Chugash National Forest, where it rained for two days. The northern parts of Alaska are semi-arid, and they certainly needed the rain (forest fire danger was Extreme), but it kept us near the RV for most of the time.

Sunday brought us back to Anchorage, to fix the EGR valve once again. Seems a temperature sensor is bad, and this time they don’t have the part. Maybe tomorrow (Tuesday). And Patrice is homesick, so we are revising the outline dramatically, skipping Southeast completely and starting back as soon as the RV is road-worthy. Meanwhile, we are holed up in a hotel, so we will skip Camp Freightliner on this visit.

We’re still going to head for Jasper, Banff, and the Black Hills, but overall we should get home about 10 days early.