A quiet last day in Soldotna

The Kenai River is quiet since no fishing is allowed from motor boats on Mondays; the only fishermen are casting from shore or from row boats.  Our Monday morning began, as usual, at a local coffee house, using their WiFi to blog and catch up on emails.  We have almost become “regulars” here, and will miss their high speed connection.  In the afternoon, we made another visit to cousin Bill’s place making a trade of handmade knit socks for Pam’s canned and smoked salmon.  We should be fixed for quite awhile now.

In the evening we met with Jon and Jackie at a local pizza shop to say our goodbye’s for the time being.  We plan to head back to Willow and be around to help Phil and Elsie with some health issues for a few days.  We will post this blog Tuesday morning and hitch up for the slow drive back to the mainland.

It is now the middle of summer, and the middle of our trip.  We can’t get any farther West or South on this peninsula so this is the start of our turnaround.  There will still be plenty of side trips and sightseeing on our way back to the lower 48.