A YEAR ON THE ROAD IN OUR MOTORHOME
BOOK 2/PAGE 7
The train arrives in Whittier under heavy clouds and there is not much to see. The port where ships take on and let off vehicles and the town. Actually, about 1/2 of the town's people live in the large apartment buildings seen in the right background. On the right is a close up of the huge water falls directly behind the apartment buildings. We had planned to look around the town and catch the next train back but after about 5 minutes there was nothing else to see so we caught the same train back to Portage.
June, 1991 to June, 1992
We stopped at the Portage Glacier and found a great many RVs parked in their own parking lot. Quite a nice exhibit there and very interesting. On the highway again we stopped at a vegetable stand where we got a huge head of lettuce for $1.00.
We continue back to Anchorage and east toward the Richardson Highway that leads to Valdez, the terminus of the Alyeska pipeline. The scenery is spectacular. Mountain ranges, glaciers, all along the highway.
The last pumping station is #12. The sign on the right explains about the station and shows the entire route of the pipeline.
Worthington glacier is a major attraction along the highway and is only about 28 miles to the north of Valdez. There is a parking lot right next to the glacier so you can get really close.
Don't ask me what the animal is but I suspect it is some type of ground squirrel or marmot. On the right is the remains of a hand-dug tunnel that was never completed due to the shoot-out between the two crews who were working on it.
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