Back to Anchorage

August 4, 2010

On the way back to Anchorage, we stopped at the city of Kenai. Auntie Amy visited Greek Orthodox Church and got all excited about something called ICON.

We found our retirement home in Kenai, just need some minor repair...

We then had lunch at Veronica’s, a local popular restaurant... The food was ok but pretty expensive.

We visited the visitor center at Whittier and decided not to drive through the tunnel to Whittier because it was getting late and all the stores were closed plus our gas was low and Whittier doesn’t have gas station!

A path next to bear camp ground near the Whittier visitor center...

This is our last night of RV stay, we parked our RV at the Sports Authority parking lot.

August 5, 2010

We returned RV in the morning. We had driven 1,965 miles for this trip. After we said goodbye to Yi’s parents at the airport, we rented a car and dropped auntie Amy at the Alaska Heritage Museum then headed to the Flattop Mountain.

It was a foggy on the way up to the peak. The hike was over 5 miles round trip and it took us more than 2 hours to get to the top. The last ¼ of climb was strenuous. We had to climb with all our limbs. It was fun and good exercise.

Victory at the top of the mountain...

Going down was more difficult than climbing up...

On the way down, the sky cleared up and the view was awesome...

We also saw some patchy structure on the hill we couldn’t figure out what it was until we climbed up and paid a closer look. It was snow/ice covered with dust – a mini-glacier!

After the Flattop maintain hiking, we visited some stores in downtown Anchorage, then went to the airport and waited for our flight.