RVing!! From Anchorage to Talkeetna

After being driven around for weeks, either on ships or trains, planes or helicopters, it was time to be more self-propelled! So it was time to pick up our home for the next 9 days, the RV. At 24 foot, it is a baby amongst the RV community, but big enough for us!

Me and the RV

Making lunch in the RV

The RV in our first campsite, Eagle River

Annie and myself with a well-earned post first day drive beverage!

Mum and me on a rock by Eagle River.

The peace and tranquility was a little interrupted when, during a discussion about why our family never did more camping or outdoorsy stuff when Mike and I were kids, Annie promptly fell and scraped her leg quite badly, and Mum then dropped and nearly broke her glasses... I need wonder no more...

And so we retired to the relative safety of the RV, and I started to practice my overlanding skills by cooking our first meal

Mum at the campsite

Before we had pulled into the campsite though, we had visited the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Centre, an animal refuge for native beasts.

A Musk Ox

A scary wolf

A grizzly bear

But he was behind a fence, so we didn't have to practice our "I am going to stand my ground while being eaten by a bear" techiques that they advocate in the "unlikely" event of a bear attack.

But he doesn't look to keen to attack anyone...

Bison

Caribou (actually the same as reindeer, but called Caribou in North America, and Reindeer in Europe)

A bored black bear

Annie and a Moose

Me and the moose

From Eagle River we headed to Talkeetna, described as "most people's vision of what an Alaskan town should look like".

Me and the K2 Flightseeing hut. I went on an hour and a half flight to see Mt McKinley, which was sadly in cloud at the time, and the surrounding area, but unfortunately my memory card corrupted and I have no photos...

Mum and Annie and the river, looking towards Mt McKinley

Looking very pleased with myself, enjoying a glass of wine

Yep, that wine was pretty strong stuff, so this seemed like an excellent idea... Sorry Annie!

The next morning, as we headed to Denali National Park, we came across this beautiful float plane base, and had to take a couple of photos!