There’s a glacier in our windshield!

M 26.4 Richardson Highway, across the road from Worthington Glacier, AK – August 9, 2014

Mountains, mountains everywhere. It seems as though no matter what direction you face, there they are. And as many as you see, it’s only a tiny fraction of what’s here.

Our first stop today was going to be Glennallen. It is here that you turn left to go to Tok or Delta Junction, or turn right to go to Valdez. There’s also an IGA grocery store here, an espresso hut, and a couple of filling stations.

We check GasBuddy and find out that diesel is cheaper here than in Valdez. So we fill up. Apparently everyone else uses the same app, because the fuel lanes are packed. While I fill up both Big Guy and the Element, EJ checks out ‘The Hub"’, a store attached to the filling station. And she finds a neat doodad that will be a nice present for some friends who will be tying the knot very soon.

Famished by all this activity, we check out the Tok Thai Truck as we have heard good things about it. Food offerings in Alaska are unique. They might come from an abandoned school bus, a converted RV, a portable building, a tent or even an old work truck. We were not disappointed with our selections and even had leftovers for another meal.

We pass by Copper Center and decide we’ll save it for the trip back. We want to get close to Valdez today so that we’ll have a short leisurely drive tomorrow.

Continuing on towards Valdez. Ahead, someone has found a little boondocking spot right next to the road.

Now we see more glaciers. But not the one we’re looking for just yet.

There it is. that’s the one we’re looking for,Worthington. We find a large gravel pullout across the road and stake out our spot.

The windshield is a little buggy so out comes the ladder and cleaning supplies and Frank goes to work on the windows, and the bugs go to work on Frank.

Ahh, that’s much better.

Across the road from us sits a small plane and what appears to be a runway of sorts. We were hoping to see it take off, but no such luck.

It has been drizzling off and on and cloudy, but the full moon gave a valiant effort to shine through over the glacier.

It’s going to be tough going back to the flatlands after constantly having incredible views like this. One of the folks we met this summer who has already headed home, said “everything is so stunning but I’m absolutely stunned out”. We haven’t reached that point yet, and don’t know if we ever will.