6/29/17 Wet and wetter. We arrived in Whittier at 6 AM, a place with World War II history as a harbor for the troop transports and supplies in the Pacific campaign. Then the cold war additions. A tunnel built in 1943-3, drilled through the mountain and under a glacier two and a half miles originally for rail transport of military supplies to Anchorage… more recently added a concrete slab between the rails to allow vehicles through. Every hour on the hour for 15 minutes for cars, alternating on the half hour for trains. A rock chute. The tunnel opens to tall mountains, snow and waterfalls with heavy dark grey clouds hanging low and steady rain. As it is nearly the fourth of July weekend  and there is a marathon happening in Seward… there are lots of road barn campers headed that way…all seeking a place to weather the weather for the night. We found a nice spot on the side of the Glacier Road headed west, down on a stream… and we were alone for a bit but other road campers seeking the free sites have found what we did and have come in to ‘our space’ … first night in the camper in Alaska and it is thankfully just an ‘on the way to someplace else on a wet day’ stop over. A loon swims by and calls. Luann is starting the acclimation to the camper (boat living mentality)… “where is everything and where to go in a shared space”? For me at nearly the two week mark, the space seems adequate but new routines for two. The new, front opening Isotherm refrigerator is a big convenience over the top opening Engel. Though both are very high efficiency (low energy) the Isotherm is much quieter… I have to put my ear to it to know it is running. We had it turned up high (cold) for the day before we put the camper on the ferry where there would be no solar recharging of our batteries. We also had frozen 2 quarts of water. On the sixth day, without sun for solar recharging of battery use, the ice was still solid in both quarts. The energy used was small starting at 13 V and at 12.64 V after 5 days. That is plenty to last while it rains for the next 4 days. I have one bar/4G here so post this as something to do to while away the time with the sound of rain on the camper roof.