Alaska – Anchorage Day 3

June 22 Friday Woke up to the sound of gurgling water and discovered that a ten cent clip that secures the hose to our water pump had broken and all of our fresh water had drained from the fresh water tank into the compartments under the motor home and the parking lot! Great! It's always something! Fortunately, we looked in our Anchorage travel guide and found an RV service center who gave us the number of a RV parts supplier so Gary called them and they had the small part we needed to make the repair. Not only that, when he went to pick it up they gave it to him for free! Not that it was expensive, but, still, very nice of them! Within a couple of hours the pump was repaired, the compartments were vacuumed out with the little wet/dry vac we carry and the sun was drying the parking lot. So, we could get on with the day.

We didn't have a lot to do, just find some fresh bagels, mail a couple of things, make a quick stop at a grocery store and anxiously await the arrival of Gage & Reid. Their flight was scheduled to land at 12:33am Saturday morning. We heard from them when they left Ithaca and then again when they were in Phoenix so we knew all was still on schedule. Since I know they really like my sloppy joe's, I cooked a batch up while we waiting to head to the airport about 11:15pm.

Alaska- Anchorage Day 4

Arriving in Alaska 16 hours after leaving Ithaca

June 24 Satuday early morning We got to the airport about 11:40pm and saw that their plane was scheduled to arrive earlier than expected, 12:05am. Reid texted us that they had arrived about that time and were still on the plane waiting, but about 20 minutes later they arrived! So good to see them!

They couldn't get over how light it still was at 1am and the mountains as we headed back to the RV. After some conversation and sloppy joe's we all settled in for some much needed rest.