After explaining our problem to the technician he said he could have a truck come out to jump start the battery or we could replace the battery. Mike said we would try replacing the battery first. Then to add to everything else, it started to rain – fortunately not a downpour.
We drove over to the gas station on post and they had a battery and it cost us $84.99. Since it was lunch time, we stopped at the PX and went to Subway for lunch. We returned to the RV and Mike installed the battery and the RV started right up. I called Coach-Net to let them know that our problem was solved.
Checkout at the FamCamp is noon and we left our campsite a 12:30 and by the time we dumped our tanks it was 12:50 when we left the campground. We stopped at the post gas station to fill the RV propane tank ($3.59 a gallon), get gas in the RV ($3.879 a gallon) and hitch up the car, so it was 1:30 when we finally left.
We left Elmendorf AFB through the Muldoon Gate and then headed west on AK-1 through Anchorage and then south to Seward. The Seward Highway travels along the shores of the Turnagain Arm and we had been looking forward to the scenery along the way, but with the rain and low clouds over the mountains we didn’t get the great photos we had hoped.
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| From Anchorage to Seward |
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| From Anchorage to Seward |
Since it was Sunday afternoon there was a lot of traffic heading north on the Seward Highway and a lot of RVs leaving the Kenai Peninsula.
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| From Anchorage to Seward |
By 4:00 we were about a mile north of the turnoff to the Seward Resort when we reached a long line of traffic heading south that was stopped on the highway.
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We sat there for almost an hour and occasionally crept forward. I called my brother in Kissimmee and then we called our son, Fletcher, while we were waiting for the traffic to move. Since it was getting close to 5:00 and we wanted some coffee, I got up and put on a pot of coffee. That was when we finally started to move and could see that the Fire Department was cleaning up a spill of some sort off the highway.
We arrived at Seward Resort at 5:00. Seward Resort is the Army’s campground and lodge here in Seward. We are in site #16 which is a pull-in and we have cable TV, 50 amp electric and water hook-ups. There is free wi-fi and Mike was given the log-on information when he checked us in.
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| From Anchorage to Seward |
It has been raining most of the day on the drive up here and so far tonight. I think it’s supposed to rain tomorrow, too.
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