New Member from Alaska, Hello from the Kenai!

joe b. wrote:
Welcome to the forum as there is a lot of good, with some highly questionable information available. LOL We lived in rural Alaska for just over 25 years and at one time owned a river front lot on the Kenai River, abut 1 1/4 upstream from the bridge at Soldotna. But the entire Kenai got so busy in the summer time, that we decided not to build there and sold the place after ten years or so of using it as a fish camp. We set our 5th wheel up semi permanently on the lot and used our TC to pull our boat as we ran back and forth from our home in Nenana.

Just an FYI, when posting photos, if you will keep them under 800 in width, the photos and text won't run off the page as your 1,200+ ones are doing. Think the forum rules say to keep them to 640.

Nice looking TC and should give you lots of good use. Just out of curiosity are you back up to work for an established church group or are you starting your own? Again welcome and I think you will find most of the Alaska TCers are part of the population parade of people there for a fixed term assignment, be it with the military or other government agency. A few, such as Chuck Johnson, screen name of Cleary ( he lives at Cleary Summit north of Fairbanks) is permanent and like me, is older than dirt. Chuck and his wife are really good people and a wealth of information on TCing in Alaska.

Welcome again and looking forward to your future trip reports and photos. We hope to head up to the north country again this summer, for our 14th round trip by RV to/from Alaska.

We're leasing a home on 2.5 acres of lakefront across from Sterling. I think by now we've decided not to purchase this home, and we're starting to look for land elsewhere. We're 45 minutes up the road from Soldotna, on the backside of the river...and once you get here, you can hear the highway noise from across the river. Also, though 2.5 acres, there is a neighbor 100' away with small scrub trees not blocking the view very well. The owners want $650K for the place we're in...and I think I can do a lot better for that money. I'd rather be on an airport than a river. Preferably a float plane friendly lake with some fish in it. We'll probably relocate in a few years. If the owners are open, we'll lease here until we finish building a place on another property likely close by. So far indications are that they're open to that as they've been trying to sell for nearly 6 years since they built the place.

Sorry about the photo size, I snagged them off my facebook page and didn't resize. They showed up proper size in my browser, so I didn't think about it. I know how much of a pain that can be, so I'll pay attention to that in the future.