A cold and rainy morning.  We opted not to stand in the rain and try to make breakfast.  We drove into the next small town, Glennallen (pop 88, according to The Milepost) to find a place to eat.  

After lunch, we stopped at Worthington Glacier State Park.  This is a glacier near the road that you can walk right up to.  It's the most surreal blue!  It seems the color blue gets more intense as air is forced out of the ice under pressure.  This glacier can move as much as 5 to 8 feet in a month!  They've done testing on this glacier by boring holes into it and inserting some type of camera.  They've found that the bottom of the glacier moves at about 5 feet per month while the top of it moves about 8 feet per month.

It's still cold and rainy.  We continued on to Valdez (Val-DEEZ), AK to try to find a room for the night.  We can handle the cold, but the gray, rainy weather is getting us down.  We didn't have a cell signal until just outside of Valdez, so we pulled over and made some phone calls.  We were getting nervous when many of the places we called had no vacancies!  There are lots of B&B's listed and we found The Blessing House had a room available.  We talked with Diann Ryan at the Blessing House and she has several properties, some she rents as B&B's and some she rents as longer term apartments.  We had a full kitchen at our disposal so we made dinner at the house.  One of the couples downstairs has a kitchen and what they were cooking for dinner smelled so much better than what we had.  They came up for  awhile to chat.  Frank and Danielle are from Stuttgart, Germany and the salmon they had for dinner Frank caught himself this afternoon!