From George, WA we drove 500 miles south back to Ashland, OR. It was far from an unpleasant trip through the Cascade Mountains. The reason for coming back to Ashland, is to gear ourselves up for our trip to Alaska and then flying back the UK, via New York.
It was quite nice to spend a few days in Ashland catching our breath after a few weeks of covering a lot of country.
From Ashland we headed up the middle of Oregon, stopping briefly in Portland for lunch. We chose to go to Fuller’s Coffee Shop in downtown Portland for lunch. As is often the case in this part of the country it was raining, and also unusually cold so it was wonderful to find a place selling simple hot food. Emily, the fussiest of us when it comes to eating chose a burger, but the rest of us had a hot beef sandwich with mashed potato covered in steaming gravy. Just what the doctor ordered. Good old Road Food wins again!
Eventually arrived in Seattle yesterday for our overnight stop before flying to Anchorage, Alaska today.
We arrived in mid afternoon at our Bed & Breakfast, the Anchorage Lakeside Jewel, which will be home for the next three nights. Our hosts are Caroline and Chris a very nice young couple. Our suite is called "The Top of the World", and its first floor situation provides a fantastic view of
the garden which runs down the lake. It is a lovely evening and of course Jack and Emily are magnetically attracted to the lake - so we all end up spending some hours down their enjoying the long summer's evening. Chris lends Jack and Emily some fishing rods - but despite numerous castings into the lake, with plenty of small fish joyously leaping from the water celebrating the arrival of summer, their fishing endeavour ends fruitless (or fishless). It is around 10.00am before we get them into bed and it is still like the middle of the afternoon ... the sun does not set until around 11:40pm and it really never gets dark throughout the night. The blinds in room are not very efficient so it is very difficult to get to sleep - especially the over-stimulated children. We do allow Jack to get up and sit out on our balcony just to prove he can read his book up here in Alaska at midnight.
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