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canyonwalkerAlaska Travelog #20
At breakfast at a gas station - Tue, 18 Jun 2024, 11am
Today has been another foggy morning in Seward. Instead of lazing around the room all morning waiting for it to lift, though, we got going around 9am. So just a bit of lazing. We figure it'll be clearer up in the mountains away from the bay.
Speaking of lazing, yesterday evening was lazy, too. We got back from our amazing hike to Exit Glacier and went straight to dinner. Since it was early-ish (only about 7pm) we had our choice of restaurants open. But at the dining choices in Seward are weak, we decided our best bet was a highly rated hamburger stand. Reader, they had a 4.5 star rating on Yelp yet served cooked-from-frozen hamburger patties. That tells you how weak the choices in this town are. Well, at least we improved upon the evening by going to an ice cream parlor afterwards. The ice cream was really good. And it was funny waiting in a line out the door in 55° weather to get ice cream.
This morning we had our usual in-room breakfast. I microwaved a couple of Hot Pockets I bought at Safeway last night, Hawk ate crackers and cheese. I tell you, if this room had an oven— like was common at small motels in New Zealand— we'd have bought better eats at the grocery store and skipped playing restaurant roulette simply to cook here.
We did a bit of gift-shopping in town before heading out for a day of hiking. Gift shops are mostly tourist traps, so we didn't expect to buy much. We were there to see if anything caught our fancy. ...Which means mostly rocks and rock art for Hawk, and commemorative stuffed animals for both of us. We bought an eagle! I'll share a photo later as I'm composing this blog at a gas station.
Yes, I'm sitting at a gas station right now. For breakfast. Well, second breakfast. ...Okay, more like brunch.
We were hungry for more eats before heading out hiking for the day, but it was before 11am so few of the town's restaurants were open yet, and they all suck anyway. (Except ice cream. But 10:45am is too early for ice cream.) So we headed to a gas station with a convenience store and ready-to-eat hot food.
The first gas station didn't have the eats we were looking for, but the second one, right next door to it, did. Fortunately Seward is just big enough to support two gas stations! 😂 I've chowed down on a beef-and-cheese burrito rolled by some guy in the back. It was... passable... especially in a place where "South of the Border" means British Columbia, Canada. 🤣
Now it's time to get rolling toward today's adventure.
At breakfast at a gas station - Tue, 18 Jun 2024, 11am
Today has been another foggy morning in Seward. Instead of lazing around the room all morning waiting for it to lift, though, we got going around 9am. So just a bit of lazing. We figure it'll be clearer up in the mountains away from the bay.
Speaking of lazing, yesterday evening was lazy, too. We got back from our amazing hike to Exit Glacier and went straight to dinner. Since it was early-ish (only about 7pm) we had our choice of restaurants open. But at the dining choices in Seward are weak, we decided our best bet was a highly rated hamburger stand. Reader, they had a 4.5 star rating on Yelp yet served cooked-from-frozen hamburger patties. That tells you how weak the choices in this town are. Well, at least we improved upon the evening by going to an ice cream parlor afterwards. The ice cream was really good. And it was funny waiting in a line out the door in 55° weather to get ice cream.
This morning we had our usual in-room breakfast. I microwaved a couple of Hot Pockets I bought at Safeway last night, Hawk ate crackers and cheese. I tell you, if this room had an oven— like was common at small motels in New Zealand— we'd have bought better eats at the grocery store and skipped playing restaurant roulette simply to cook here.
We did a bit of gift-shopping in town before heading out for a day of hiking. Gift shops are mostly tourist traps, so we didn't expect to buy much. We were there to see if anything caught our fancy. ...Which means mostly rocks and rock art for Hawk, and commemorative stuffed animals for both of us. We bought an eagle! I'll share a photo later as I'm composing this blog at a gas station.
Yes, I'm sitting at a gas station right now. For breakfast. Well, second breakfast. ...Okay, more like brunch.
We were hungry for more eats before heading out hiking for the day, but it was before 11am so few of the town's restaurants were open yet, and they all suck anyway. (Except ice cream. But 10:45am is too early for ice cream.) So we headed to a gas station with a convenience store and ready-to-eat hot food.
The first gas station didn't have the eats we were looking for, but the second one, right next door to it, did. Fortunately Seward is just big enough to support two gas stations! 😂 I've chowed down on a beef-and-cheese burrito rolled by some guy in the back. It was... passable... especially in a place where "South of the Border" means British Columbia, Canada. 🤣
Now it's time to get rolling toward today's adventure.
