A very beautiful drive from Glenallen to Palmer. We had the windows on in the morning as it was quite cold and raining. We stopped at a place called Sheep Mountain where the owners invited us to stop and have morning tea. Lovely home made cookies, tea and coffee. We are a big crowd to cater for and it takes special people to put their hands up and invite such a big group for morning tea. It is a lovely resort in the mountains with views to the mountains. They have sled dogs which they are training for the winter season. The resort is popular in summer and winter although restaurant services stop mid-September but the cottages are self contained.
We parked by an airstrip and had to walk through the neighbours property to get to our morning tea stop. Well the neighbour's yard was a graveyard for old Volvos - apparently he gets the vehicles that are written off by the insurance company. The boys had the cameras flashing as amongst his collection were a couple of ex-military vehicles.
Just after we left the morning tea stop we passed a huge Glacier. Unfortunately we had the windows on the vehicle so this prohibited some good photo shots.
From Palmer some of the group went on the unsealed road through Hatcher Pass and others, including us, went by the sealed road route and stopped off at the Transport Museum. A very good collection of all sorts of vehicles, trains, planes and memorabilia.
That night we camped at Willow and had a meal of burgers and sausages cooked by the campground owners. We discovered that we were parked right beside the trainline where it crosses the road . The train runs between Anchorage and Fairbanks and at some unearthly hour in the morning we thought the train was coming through our "house".
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