July 6, 2012

7/5/12 HOPE, AK

It rained steady ALL NIGHT long.  We hitched up in the rain in Whittier and caught the 12:00 traffic flow through the tunnel.  The tunnel schedule is leaving Whittier they open it to outgoing traffic on the hour up until 11:00 p.m.  If you’re driving into Whittier they open traffic inbound on every half hour.  And of course the train gets priority as it comes & goes.  Once we crossed the mountain range between Whittier and the Kenai/Anchorage area it stopped raining and the sun even came out a little.  The pastor told us that the weather on the Whittier side of the mountain range gets a lot of rain, and boy he was right.  I would not have thought we would drive out of that rain any time soon, if ever.  We arrived in Hope which is one the coast of the Turnagain Arm.  It seems to be sort of a canyon that is very windy.  We traded rain for wind, but at least we’re drying out.   We got the only campsite that was available for 3 days here at the Seaview RV park, 15 amp electric only.  They are having a blue grass festival here this weekend and most sites are reserved.  What luck!  We’re looking forward to the blue grass music.  Hope is tiny, population about 150.  Nothing to do here but a very charming town indeed.  The population is about the same as Whittier but there is no harbor. It’s located on the north side of the peninsula which appears to be very shallow, but fishing is said to be very good. 

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