Having already knocked out about 15 miles of our first leg, we had a nice breakfast in the RV and headed out fairly early. More miles of gorgeous and dramatic scenery down to Girdwood and beyond, until finally the road moved away from the inlet into the mountains. We turned west to head for Homer, and as the mountains slipped away, the terrain became fairly ordinary, looking like any coastal community like in the Carolinas or along the West Coast. We stopped in Soldotna, which was the only, full-fledged town along the way (with TWO grocery stores, no less!), and finished getting supplies before moving on. As we reached Homer, the first view is the most impressive. As you top the hill, you can see across the inlet to the other side, and with lots of mist and rain and low clouds around, we weren't sure what we were looking at. Later we learned it was a glacier, which was cool enough, but with the clouds swirling around it, it seemed even more mysterious, so beautiful. When we got to the bottom of the hill and into the town, we took a wrong turn and ended up on the Homer "Spit," a causeway that juts out into the inlet most, but not all, of the way. It was crowded with little shops, restaurants and fish markets, mostly on stilts, boats, campers, cars, parking, and was just a mess of people wandering around. We almost reached the end when we found a fish market, so we stopped in hopes of finding some fresh salmon. No such luck, being Sunday, this shop was out and there were no processors around, so we actually ended up buying some frozen, oh well. We headed back to the mainland, found the right road and kept going, now heading east along the south side of the peninsula. I had discovered that my cell phone wouldn't download data for my GPS, but my new Jetpack could, so I ended up using my Jetpack as a hot spot so my phone could work data. Weird, but at least it worked. So with the GPS running, we discovered where Trails End Horse Adventures was, then set about looking for a place to park for the night. We were tempted to park at the elementary school just up the road, but discovered a side road across the street that had a little turnout off it. There was a half-stripped down car parked there, not sure what that was about, and it wasn't perfectly level, but it was convenient and would do for the night. We got settled in, though I had some trouble trying to hook up the DVD player, so we tried to watch it directly, and we both ended up falling asleep. With the sun setting after 10:00, and dusk lasting to 11:00, our internal time clocks are having a field day trying to get used to it. Early start tomorrow, so we gave up and went to bed!
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