If solitude is what you were hoping to find, this is the summer to be in Alaska. We just returned from an Alaskan Cruise via Holland America and expected to see the bumper to bumper traffic that is the normal on a Sunday afternoon drive along the Seward Highway. Well it was more like a quiet drive through the back country some 30 years ago as there were no and I do repeat no motorhomes on the roads and traffic was so sparse you had to wonder if the Peninsula was under quarantine Where are all the people? Locals, visitors, business people... Where have they all gone?
Moose Pass and Cooper Landing were vacant of people, Sterling was all asleep and the sidewalks had been rolled up at 6 pm, Soldotna was more like a ghost town then the major destination of sportsmen from around the globe.. Where are all the people?
Campgrounds completely empty, lodges without clients, gas stations without lines, this is far worse then anything the tourism folks from the borough were telling us to prepare for. If this is a sample of the summer to come, the woes of the lower 48 recession are about to find the Kenai in a big way.
Moose Pass and Cooper Landing were vacant of people, Sterling was all asleep and the sidewalks had been rolled up at 6 pm, Soldotna was more like a ghost town then the major destination of sportsmen from around the globe.. Where are all the people?
Campgrounds completely empty, lodges without clients, gas stations without lines, this is far worse then anything the tourism folks from the borough were telling us to prepare for. If this is a sample of the summer to come, the woes of the lower 48 recession are about to find the Kenai in a big way.
