We have set aside a day of rest after the long travel day. We are staying at one of our time share locations in Sedona. Just relaxing, napping, eating wonderful dinner, and enjoying the scenery

Creekside Bistro shared dishes, Ahi Nachos, Crab cake, lamb lollipops, and peach cobbler!

Had a great visit in Prescott with my cousin Laura and her husband Mark in their new home!

Resting up at my daughter Liz’s house. I just soaked up the flowers and birds in their yard! But first, the dogs had to greet Walker properly!

Other garden flowers

The wildflowers are all “pollenaters”, planted in the nearby ‘corners’ of the fields, for the bees!

And the birds!

Today our travels took us thru Lizard Head Pass on the San Juan Skyway, across the 4 corners states of Colorado, New Mexico (for about 6 seconds) Arizona and Utah! We passed thru Monument Valley and then down across Arizona thru Oak Creek Canyon to Sedona. Here is a taste of our scenery! First, our SW journey out of Colorado

We passed just briefly thru the corner of New Mexico, into the Navajo Nation, where the corners of 4 states converge, we drove in all 4 today! Colorado, NM, Arizona and Utah! We took a little divergence to pass thru Monument Valley. See if you can catch Forrest Gump on the road!

We traveled across the state of AZ, down thru Oak Creek Canyon to Sedona for a 2 night rest.

Our fabulous Alaska Adventure is over.   We are back in the lower 48, after a couple full days of travel,  6-7 hour drive down the state of Alaska on Hwy 3, Fairbanks to Anchorage.  

We stayed at a great hotel close to ANC , the Lakefront. The lobby was filled with Alaskan animals! 

It was set on Lake Hood where the flight planes take off and land

Thursday was a full day of flights,  Anchorage to Seattle,  then Seattle to Denver. 

We arrived late in the evening, so we stayed the night near the airport.  My daughter,  Liz, drove down to pick us up and drive us today to Nebraska.  

But… after a couple days relaxing with the family,  we will be back on the road.   Stay tuned.

Our outings for the day! While The guys went Arctic Grayling fishing. I visited a couple spots near town.

There is a viewing place near Fairbanks where you can see a section of the Alaska pipeline!

There is also a migratory bird viewing area! Few birds there at the moment, and at the far side of the field. When I went, it was misting a bit too so sorry for the quality of the pictures. There are ducks, Canada geese and a few Sandhill Cranes!

Our drive up to Fairbanks was rainy, so no good pictures. We walked a bit around the hotel downtown, but that’s it. In fact, the rain has raised the level of the river, so the guys have had a change of plans…. they are going on a wading fishing trip to the delta where the water isn’t flowing over flood stage! Hope their foot warmers work! Water is 38 degrees! But the fishing should be better!

Our bus trip today was full of impressive animal sightings…. everything but a bear! Sadly. The Caribou were out in force, and we saw 4 or 5 Moose. We saw Ptarmigan, the state bird, and even ewe, lamb, and ram Dall sleep and a red fox! Our only disappointment was no bear.

We arrived at Denali National Park today! We had a great greeting near the visitors center! You can drive a small portion, in 15 miles on our own, the farthest private vehicles can go, today into the park . Tomorrow we have booked the early Tundra Wilderness bus tour, but we had some time on our own today to visit the Savage River Station, and look out for animals!

There are few highways anywhere in the world more beautiful than the road between Anchorage and Fairbanks today! The stretch between Talkeetna and Denali National Park in particular! Today the skies were clear and the peaks of Denali were both visible and gorgeous!