Stayed at Russian River Campground last night. The drive into Anchorage is beautiful as it skits the Cook Inlet. Drove today to Wasilla to tour the Ididarod Home base and then to Palmer to tour the Muskox farm. These muskox are domesticated primarily for their down which is hand combed and given to the Native people coop to knit into garments for income. None of the down is sold, either in fiber form or spun form. Each muskox can yield between 4 to 6 lbs of down. The muskox we saw weighed from 100#'s to over 1000#'s. Their feet are huge. The babies are so cute, but they were mostly sleeping as they had just had their lunch. We then traveled to just this side of Glennallen at a beautiful RV park by the Matanuska Glacier. Boy is it impressive. I will have to send pictures of the glacier tomorrow as my camera battery went dead. We hope to get to Valdez tomorrow for a day or two. Love ya'll. Congratulations to our new Design Engineer in the family. It took a long time getting there, but well worth all the stress.
I hope Dad stocked up on the elusive musk ox oil he was on the hunt for. What are the uses of this product? For some reason I just don't remember.
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