How to get to Bethel, Alaska

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End of April

The end of April is upon us already! Soon, the last remnants of snow will be gone and our Alaskan summer will begin. Naturally, Budda Budda can ONLY talk about her "ARVY" and how many days until we get to go out again in ARVY! She looks forward to spending three long weeks with her "Uncle" Wayne and "Aunt" Marilyn as we take two Class C RV's all around Alaska and into the Yukon, as far as Whitehorse, and back. Although we won't be traveling 10,000 miles like we did last summer - when we saw 5 Canadian Provinces and 14 United States - we still expect this to be another great adventure. We will start out from Anchorage in mid June before heading up to Denali National Park to, hopefully, see Mount McKinley ("Denali") and all kinds of wildlife. Budda Budda loves seeing wildlife and taking pictures to share here on her blog! We will take a shuttle bus into Denali Park and spend an entire day there. We then head off to Fairbanks - one of our favorite places in Alaska. It was at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where "Mom" Mona earned her Bachelor of Arts degree way back in 2001! We'll be sure and visit the campus while we're there and see the world-class museum there, too. We will cruise on the Riverboat Discovery on the Chena River and get to see many neat things including getting up close and personal with an Iditarod mushers sled dogs. From Fairbanks, we head to Tok, then to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, after a quick stop at the huge, and very beautiful Kluane Lake. In Whitehorse, we hope to see the longest, all wooden fish ladder as well as several other unique things. (Starr's favorite thing is putting the "loonie" - a Canadian dollar - into the carts at the store in order to get a shopping cart. When you return your cart, you get your loonie back!) We will soon head back to Tok and then down towards Glenallen where we will stay and get to visit, right up close,with one of Alaska's many glaciers. This one is next to the road so it's very easy to get to. After we leave this area, we are going to Seward where we will board one of the cruise ships and tour the Kenai Fjords for 6 hours. We hope to see whales, glaciers and many other exciting sites that day, too. From Seward, we take a rather long drive to Homer, known as the Halibut Capital of the World. Although we won't be doing any halibut fishing this trip, we still plan to take the "Gull Island" lunch cruise where we'll pass a small island filled with puffins, seals, and many other Alaskan creatures. To end our trip, we head back up to Anchorage where we will see the sites of Anchorage including Mona's favorite, Earthquake Park. The views from this park, looking out over the huge Cook Inlet, are awe inspiring! All in all, it should be a "trip of a lifetime" for Budda Budda's "Uncle" Wayne and "Aunt" Marilyn from Missouri! Stay tuned for photos next month of how Budda Budda spent May in her home here in the great state of Alaska!