This is continued from our Alaska trip in August. With so much to see and do I fell behind on the blog and skipped day 9 – 13. Here they are.
After a great breakfast and coffee we broke camp and headed out from the Sourdough Campground. It was about 9am, about 42° and we were en route to somewhere. We didn’t know where we were going to stay, we were just heading southwest down the Tok Cutoff. If person had asked me, “where you headed?” and for the first time in my life I could say, “I don’t know and frankly, I don’t care. ”
Just outside of Tok we stopped at a 
likely fishing spot. I was lucky enough to land a Grayling, the first one I have ever caught. I was using a small silver spinner.
It started raining right after we left here.
We didn’t travel far today. Only about 60 miles before we decided to camp at Porcupine Creek Campground, an Alaska State Campground with 15 sites.
We checked the campground out and then drove further southwest hoping to see part of the Wrangell Mountains. No luck there. With the low clouds and rain we lost out on seeing Mt. Sanford from this direction.
We went as far as the Nabesna Road, the north entry into Wrangell-St.Eias National Park. After driving a couple of miles we decided to turn back to Porcupine Creek. Nabesna Road would be ok in drier weather but I was worried as it basically runs next to several water ways. Most likely some great fishing here.
It rained all night and the birds made it sound like a tropical rain forest. We had a great dinner. We were surrounded by Aspen and Spruce and we 
played Scrabble. The Alaskan State campgrounds are quite nice – no graffiti, adequate toilet facilities and mostly level sites.
We saw this guy just outside the door in the morning while having coffee.
Our Sportsmobile Sprinter has been doing great. We have had it campsites and down roads that were quite rough. 
The solar has been challenged by all the clouds so I have used the ADR (idle control for the Sprinter engine) as a generator. The “back porch” is working great. I am very happy that we can actually camp without putting anything outside – a nice feature in bear country.
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