Three days from Valdez, we are now parked in Anchorage for the next 5 nights. The weather continues to be on the cloudy, rainy side, although last evening in Palmer the sun came out briefly before it set. We back-tracked out of Valdez on Monday, past the turn off to Kenny Lake and Copper Center and then turned onto the Glenn Highway at 
Glennallen. We drove from there to Palmer, Alaska, home of the Alaska State Fair in August, and the site of the attempted colonization of Alaska in the 1930s. In the height of the Depression, families were recruited in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin to relocate to Alaska and set up homestead farms. They were given free passage, set up in tent cities in Palmer, and given tracts of land to farm and resources to build homes for themselves. We watched about an hour of a 2 hour film on it at the Visitor’s Center. These people were true pioneers. We also got some first-hand info on this from a women at the Colony House Museum. She actually grew up in the house which is on display there.
In the evening, as I said before, the sun came out for a while, and Geoff took some pictures of the mountains which our RV Park, named Mountain View, had a view of, finally. In the morning, in the rain, yet again, we left Palmer and drove all of an hour into Anchorage. Here we will stay for 5 nights, praying for good weather, against the odds.
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