Wasilla

Lynn: Randy has been on this little kick to collect bumper stickers from everywhere we have been; we're putting them on the back of the van as we go.  Randy; "And when we get the van back we can take the back doors off and hang them up as a souvenir."

 Remind you of anything, Max? So early on we decided that we must go to Wasilla to get a sticker; better yet if it had Sarah's face on it.  Oddly enough, we are actually staying here in Wasilla.  It was a good alternative to Anchorage, which has a poor selection of hotels.

Who Knew?

It's a larger town than I thought it would be; we actually took in a movie last night, which was a nice change of pace. Everything they offered was some kind of crazy violent action flick with lots of CGI, so we chose Red 2, which was silly but funny and entertaining.  I love anything with Mary Louise Parker, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich and Bruce Willis anyway.  Oh; and we found a really cute Mexican place for dinner.

Halibut fajitas!

Randy is off on a fishing quest today, as this is the last chance he will get, and I begged off and am kicking back with a Ken Follett book and Turner Classic Movies at the motel.

Randy: Who would think laundry could be such an issue?  We have a washer & dryer in the motel we are at, coin operated, but believe it or not the maid service uses it to do the motel laundry and motel guests must wait until the motel laundry is done...we do go 1st class!  So no problem, we packed up our sheets and laundry and drove to the laundromat in town.  I, having never used a laundromat, did not realize they have time limits at these places...no starting a wash after 8 pm.  Not to be confusing, the motel doesn't make you wash your own sheets and we didn't cut a deal on the room rate if we washed our own sheets.  We need to wash the sheets from our mobile bed so Bert & Carrie have clean sheets when they pick up the van (they have elected to do the return trip in the van).  We couldn't do this laundry earlier because we could not find the soap in the van and didn't locate it until this evening.  So tomorrow--we do laundry!