Northern Lights

Steve here :
Homer Spit was actually 8/18, but without the internet postings get messed up!
Today is Wednesday, 8/19, and we're starting the day in Seward.
We are headed home!
I got up last night at 2:00 to go to the campground bathroom because our camper, oops!  I digress!
So, as I returned from the bathroom I looked to the north to locate the Big Dipper and there were the beautiful, amazing strands of blue/green that  they call the Northern Lights!  I practically raced - well, I waddled quite quickly - back to the camper and Bonnie was ready to go the bathroom too, so she got to see them!  As a married couple, we saw them once in Raymond in 1972 and we, as a family, saw them once on the way to Montreal.  They are such a treat!  I think we have so much ambient light today that we're lucky to see them at all at home.
So, about the bathroom......
We were on the way to the dump station when I noticed one of our camper brakes was locking up.  The campground host sent us to the local garage - "No Sweat Auto Repair" - and they were our heroes of the day!  Jason freed up a few minutes, determined that I had been too free with the grease gun and had gumped up one of the electric brakes.  He took less than 15 minutes to get us squared away and on the road!  Thank you, Jason!!
So, about the bathroom.....
We fixed it in Anchorage.  Enough said!!
We stopped in Palmer for breakfast/lunch at The Valley Hotel's Open Cafe.  Despite a "brown out", they served a delicious meal!
I think of my cousin Connie Hall when we are in Palmer because he worked there one summer during college and told me wonderful stories of his summer there.
We finished the day driving to Glennellen, past the Matanuska Glacier.  Beautiful, scary, bumpy, rainy, beautiful!!
northern Lights Campground in Glennellen.  Not fancy but nice!