Monday, June 30, 2014

A Great Day To Turn 65...

June 29, 2014

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What a great day to celebrate my 65th birthday in Alaska.

After a leisure start to the day and a breakfast of Blueberry Waffles, we decided to take a drive.  From the campground in town, we drove to the top of East Hill Road and Skyline Drive...

What a beautiful view of Homer, Kachemak Bay, and

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the mountains.

From this view,

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you get a real perspective of the Homer Spit.

We decided to continue our drive on East End Road, making a stop at the

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Fritz Creek General Store, Post Office, and Deli.  This place might merit a return trip.

As we continued on out the road, we found a great

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photo opt for the glaciers across the bay.

As we traveled on, we found several places where

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road construction brought us to a stop.  At one of these stops, while waiting on the pilot car, we learned that with the jeep we could

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take the road to all the way to where the road ends.  This road led us

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down, down

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and down...landing us on the beach at the East End of Kachemak Bay.

The only others on the road were

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these guys on horseback and a few ATV's!

There was a point, we thought about turning around, but, if we had, we would have missed this

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view from the beach at

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the end of the road!

Thanks to each of you for the birthday wishes that also made this day special.  I am so blessed to call each of you friend and family.

It truly has been a great day to celebrate turning 65!

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