8/3/1991 - Saturday

John:  After breakfast in the truck, we headed for home.  In Evergreen we stopped at “our” Pizza Hut then drove home on “our” mountain, we saw “our” fox!  It’s good to be home... safe, sound & healthy!!  The total miles driven today was 155 miles.

ODOM: 32143

Summary:  After seven weeks (which wasn’t long enough!), we’ve spent a total of $4,090 cash, plus $691.00 on gas credit cards... for a grand total spent of $4,781.  The total miles driven was 8281 miles.

Karen & Kari arrive home

Susan arrives home & steps out of the truck.

John gets out of the truck after arriving at home.

7/3/1991 - Wednesday

John:  Our main gig today was to take the 8 hour bus tour in the Denali Park.  We started at 9:40 and returned at 6:10.  It was great!  The weather was mostly good, ran into a few rain storms.  We could not see Mt. McKinley due to the smoke & fog.  (Clouds).  we did see some moose. about 8-10 grizzly bears, dall sheep, and caribou.  The moose had a baby moose with her... sooo  cute!  The grizzlies had babies too, one with two babies, the other had three.  The sheep & grizzlies were not close.  The caribou were real close... hope my pictures come out.  The bus tour was long and we were all tired.  We ate out for Karen’s birthday at the Crows Nest.  Karen had baked salmon!  We are camped in Denali Park.  There is moose turds right next to our camp spot!  (The folks around here call them moose nuggets).  We saw Gary on another tour bus.

ODOM:  27534

Kari:  We saw moose with a baby, a lot of grizzly bears with babies, a red fox dall sheep with babies, and caribou.

John, Kari, Susan & Karen at Denali National Park

Dall Sheep

Braided River

Bear

Bears

Dall Sheep

Susan & Kari in Denali

Caribou

Caribou

Susan with Caribou

Red Fox

6/30/1991 - Sunday

John:  We drove to Chena Hot Springs today.  We saw a black fox along the way.  The pool was nice.  Good for Kari to practice her swimming.  There was also two Jacuzzis plus a smaller area of the real hot springs.  We ran into Peter & Betty there.  We drove back to Fairbanks to get our reservations for the free bus tour of Denali Park.  The tour lasts 8 hours!  We were lucky to get them for July 3rd due to the 4th of July holiday!  Peter & Betty are doing this on the 2nd.  We are camped at the Chena Recreation Area, an Alaska State Park in Fairbanks.  We drove 142 miles today.

ODOM:  27367

Susan & Kari in lake.

Kari & Susan showing off their ferry t-shirts.