Day 47- Moving to Soldotna

Everyone’s heard of the Big Bang Theory, right? Well, when we checked into the Seward Military Reserve Campground a few days ago, we heard a big bang when the slide out room came to a stop. I didn’t think anything more about it after making a comment about not hearing that noise before. I should have paid more attention. When it came time to bring the room in so we could leave this morning, nothing moved. Carl found out the bang was one of the bolts that connects the motor to the auger which moves the room in and out. He grabbed the one good bolt and headed to the local hardware store. They fixed him right up and we were on our way after only a half hour delay. I can just imagine how difficult it would have been to get fixed if that had happened on the Alaska highway 300 miles from anywhere. The move over to Soldotna or more specifically Sterling which is just outside Soldotna took a few hours. We got a cozy little site and then set down to figure out our grocery needs for the next few days. What we discovered is I needed to shop for all of the days between today and the 11th when we get on the ferry. And, I needed to have enough things to eat most of our meals on the ferry by sandwich or microwave, Thursday supper and all three meals on Friday. We’ll be off the ferry in Prince Rupert about 5:00AM on the 13th. We’ll get breakfast on the road. Anyway, back to Sterling. The place we’re camping at is the Alaska Canoe and Campground right on the Sterling Highway. It’s only a 15 minute drive from where we need to get the float plane in the morning. The people seem quite friendly and they have free internet and showers here as well. The laundry is on the honor system, too. We had some of Carl’s freshly caught halibut for supper and I didn’t find it much different than haddock. So, I’m now officially happy he caught them. He did give away the cod to our neighbors in Seward after finding out they “loved it”. We shopped at the Fred Meyer store. It’s sort of like a super Wal-Mart but bigger and it has more satellite stores in and around it. The prices were proportionately higher here than in Anchorage which is what you’d expect and gas prices are hovering around the $4.17 per gallon mark although you can still find stations with a much higher price the further from town you get.