7/4/17 Luann and I were treated to an all day cruise to the Kenai Peninsula. It is nearly beyond words. We were treated as VIPs as my nephew Mike is the captain on the boat. Whales, Orcas, dolphins, puffins, rookeries of thousands of birds, sea lions, harbor seals, mountain goats, and then up to a glacier… collected ice from 24,000 year ago with ancient air trapped inside under pressure higher than my truck tires… pops like crazy in whiskey and is so hard it nearly never seems to melt.  A full day of learning the ecology of the remarkable place packed with wildlife. A unique privilege. 

Home to the coffee house for an evening meal…talking not thinking as time slips into the light of Alaska two weeks after solstice …. it’s midnight?! Just doesn’t get dark. The body starts to suffer the lag from the mind convinced it should keep going… sleep requires eye covers or towels over windows. We move on tomorrow… the fourth of July to Mike's cabin up on the plate above Homer for a few days; there we will have the time to regroup as a camper team and start the FWC Eagle life for the next six weeks. For that leg the truck and camper must be  reorganized to be in that mode….not traveling…wandering. Happy Fourth of July!