June 20

Another beautiful day in Valdez. We had a 10 am appointment to get our truck and trailer worked on at Mark’s Repair about 3 miles out of Valdez. Turns out one of his employees came in and dropped of his keys saying he found a job working as a mechanic on the boats so bye. Not much of a two week notice. As a result he was a bit backed up. Marsha and I took a two hour walk along a beautiful bike trail. On our way back up ahead about 100 yards was a brown bear and her cub. We turned around and walked away for a bit. Then turned around and headed back figuring the bears would have moved along by then. As we got closer to the spot we had first spotted the two bears earlier two cubs popped out of the brush. We were now about 40 yards away. We turned around once again and found a way to the road and walked along the road back to the garage. They had not started the work so we got our bicycles and went for a ride along the bike trail but not in the direction of the mamma bear and two baby bears.

In order to have our rig worked on we had checked out of the Eagles Rest campground so we needed to determine where we would stay until Sunday. We found a neat small campground on the harbor to find it $55 a night. We were paying $35 at the first place. We checked out a few other campgrounds then headed back to Eagles Rest where we paid for another 4 nights. After a great bike ride we headed back to the garage. They were almost done so we waited in the waiting room. Next thing Dawn and Scott came along. They knew we were getting our rig worked on at 10 am and it’s now 3 pm. They asked if we wanted to join them on a short hike, but that was exactly when our rig was ready. We thanked them and they invited us over to their rig a bit later for a drink. We took them up on their kind offer.