Tues May 29th

Today's activity consisted of a bus ride.

In Denali National Park, no personal vehicles are allowed past the first 15 miles of road.  (there are a few exceptions)   You have to take a park bus.   Either a tour bus or a shuttle bus, we took the shuttle.    It's less expensive and it allows one to get on and off with any shuttle.  They run about every half hour.  You don't get a tour guide lecture, but our driver did much the same anyway.

We were given instructions on proper behavior when animals are sighted  (like whispers only,  keep everything inside the bus, etc.)  And off we went.  This early in the year, the road is not open all the way, but we still could go about 60 miles into the park.   Took us 7 hours.

With so many eyes, we saw a good number of animals.   Moose, Caribou, Grizzly, Dall Sheep, Porcupine, and various small animals.  Other world scenery.

Bus would not go into gear after a stop to watch Sheep.   Of course on a very narrow mountainous section.   So emergency triangles were set up to warn the next bus that we were around the corner.   Then the sheep got curious what this green box was and came over to check us out.   For about 15 minutes a couple of them wandered around the bus.   Good photo op !

Back to the RV and drive to Anchorage.   Our GPS has not proven itself to be super accurate.   It could not find a campground or RV park in Anchorage.  We headed south , looking for a place to stay.  We ended up in Portage valley, on the way to Whittier, AK.   WIND & RAIN.   All evening, all night and in the morning.  Pouring rain (we found a leak in the RV) and very gusting winds rocked the RV all night.