After a restless night in the Fred Meyer parking lot, listening to the parking lot sweeper and hot-rod cars (so Ellen said I slept like a baby) we made a stop at Starbucks for liquid energy, said good-bye to the lower diesel prices of Anchorage and headed NE on Hwy 1 (the Glenn Highway).
Side note: Our RV really looks clean from here. It really is not. 
Passing through a part of the Matanuska Valley (commonly referred to only as the Mat-Su); we were treated to beautiful views and wildflower meadows. Sorry no picture of meadow.
Passing through a part of the Matanuska Valley (commonly referred to only as the Mat-Su); we were treated to beautiful views and wildflower meadows. Sorry no picture of meadow.
But I do have a picture of a lake.
We understand that in years past the “Old” Glenn Highway was very narrow and winding, but in recent years began the process of highway alignment to widen and straighten the road. Around mile-marker 96 we drove through a newly constructed section where road crews moved over 2.4 million cubic yards of material as they finished the blasting through a huge solid rock hill last year. It was quite impressive. Sorry no picture of this also.We took a small rest from driving to take a short hike to Matanuska Glacier overlook.
We did hike through a nice forest with wild flowers.
Upon returning to the truck we discovered a very large, very rotten fish head in the bed of the truck. The odor had been noticeable for a couple of days, but only after moving firewood around, was the source of the odor discovered. An eagle must have lost his grip, as it was too large for a gull to carry. Oh, the joys of RVing in Alaska! Sorry no picture of that also.
We spent the night in a nice paved pull-out just west of Sheep Mountain Lodge with our MotoSat beaming up to the satellite for our communication and our Solar panels providing the juice. Even had some left over to watch a movie. Got to love it.
We had a beautiful view of the ragged, snow and glacier-covered Chugach Mountains to the south and the interesting Sheep Mountain to the north which is multi-colored due to the iron-dyed gypsum. 
Dall sheep use this mountain (especially in spring) as a big salt lick to replenish depleted supplies of calcium and magnesium.More tomorrow.
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