July 9

We slept well and felt rested in the morning. We headed south on the Parks Highway towards Denali. Our destination for the day is Talkeetna. We ran into intermittent rain as we traveled through the mountains arriving in Talkeetna in the late afternoon.

Talkeetna is one of the Alaskan towns that inspired the television show, Northern Exposure, back in the late 80’s and early 90’s. I have not mentioned this yet but our Airstream has a TV and DVD player. We brought along the complete collection of Northern Exposure to watch on the trip. We’ve about half way though the series and enjoying the Alaskaness of the show.

Marsha elected to go for a walk through town while I stayed in the camper catching up with my blog. It was quiet and I was making progress when somebody shook the trailer. I figured that I had neglected to put the stabilizer feet down. When they are not down it’s easy to shake the trailer just by moving around in it. The trailer shook again. Somebody was playing with me by shaking the trailer from the outside. Out of the trailer I flew but there was nobody around. The stabilizers were down. It was an earthquake. A 5.0 earthquake to be more precise. No damage to anything. When Marsha returned she didn’t know about the quake. While walking it was not noticeable.

We elected to head next door to a bar/restaurant for supper. We shared a pitcher of local beer and the meal. It’s probably 30 years since we had shared a pitcher of beer! Back to the camper for some cards and bed.