The PHONE! Portage Glacier and the Campfire

Hallelujah!  Steve has a phone!  We drove the 56 miles to Anchorage this morning and went to Fed Ex at the airport where they handed Steve a package from Verizon.  Yay!

We headed for the nearest Verizon store and eagerly went into the mall where it was located.  The picture below tells you what we found!

So we found and went to the next nearest Verizon store where a young (very young) man named Chris was able to transfer all of Steve's data from the "cloud" to his new sim card.   There was a bad moment when Chris couldn't activate the phone, but he figured it out (bless his heart) and all was well at last.  Steve is once again a happy camper with a phone!  To celebrate, we went to Golden Corral just because we haven't seen one for months.

Chris, the Verizon guy, at work!

The first smile we've seen in days!

Back in Portage we decided to go to see the Portage Glacier even though it was cloudy and spritzing rain.  This was a very nice one hour cruise aboard the MV Ptarmigan in spite of the weather.  It was nice and warm in the cabin, and a ranger on board gave us a lot of information about the glacier and the surrounding areas

Portage Glacier

A small iceberg.  

The Grant Glacier nearby.  

On the way back to the campground we stopped at the Williwaw fish viewing platform and saw salmon spawning.



Back at the campground,  Corky met another Chesapeake, then we enjoyed happy hour around the campfire with a variety of folks from many places.  I was shocked  to find a very young man from my hometown of Rockingham, NC who was traveling with his grandparents from Connecticut!  What a coincidence!

My friend from Rockingham!