Awoke today and got ready to leave Valdez. The weather was cloudy obscuring the mountains. Valdez is 80%of the time cloudy which was why yesterday was so special blue skies and mountains all around. We left on the Richardson highway and headed north. We stopped first at old Valdez which was totally destroyed in the earthquake of 1964. They moved the town 4miles south to it's present location---why, I have no idea. Our next stop was the end of the Alaska pipeline where tankers wait to fill with oil. We wanted to get in but were firmly told we looked too shady especially ellen. We were pointed in the opposite direction and the five machine guns were very persuasive.
We stopped at bridal veil falls to have lunch. The falls is next to the road so luckily I didn't have to walk too far. Next was worthington glacier which was very interesting. You could climb it with a guide but when told that we needed crevass injury training ellen and I vetoed that idea. The view from the edge was fine with us.
Copper landing was an old gold mining town with three houses and a bar. We stopped to peruse the river behind the town whose current was about 30 knots. It looked like a great rafting trip but ellen reminded me of my coma 5 years ago so we had to nix that trip.
We passed an old cemetery which has fences around the individual graves to prevent bears from digging up the corpses. Pretty gruesome thought.
We camped tonite at a state campground. It was possibly the worst evening because we were attacked by.......................................the largest Mosquitos and blackflies you ever saw. They were the size of birds. We ducked into the RV and stayed there all night. The only redeeming part was that it was half price due to me being a senior citizen. $7 for the privilege of these vicious insects sucking my blood
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