{"id":166,"date":"2017-07-28T22:24:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T22:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2017-07-28T22:41:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T22:41:55","slug":"flat-tire-and-a-birthday-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/28\/flat-tire-and-a-birthday-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat Tire and a Birthday Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello again! \u00a0We moved to the Portage area on Saturday July 22nd. \u00a0A beautiful area, on the Turnagain Arm, along Cooks Inlet. \u00a0About 1 hour south of Anchorage. \u00a0Had a great drive from the Denali area. \u00a0I’m going to do a separate post on the Portage area with lots of pictures.<\/p>\n

We woke up the next morning, planning to do a glacier boat tour and found one of our front tires completely flat on the truck! \u00a0There was a nail in the tire. \u00a0The nice guy who owns the campground filled the tire with air and also put some fix-a-flat into the tire so we could make it up the road about 10 miles to a little strip center were we can get cell and internet at. \u00a0It was Sunday, we found out everthing was closed and we had to wait until Monday to get it repaired.<\/p>\n

So we came back to the campground, and Kathleen, a nice 18 year old from California and traveling for the summer with her grandparents agreed to dog sit Gerry for us so we could go out to dinner. \u00a0It was Steve’s birthday and we haven’t been out to dinner in a long time. \u00a0So, we crossed our fingers on the truck tire holding, and drove to the Double Musky, about 12 miles away in Girdwood. \u00a0It had been recommended to us by a few people.<\/p>\n

A great place, very busy and no reservations are taken. \u00a0But after about 45 minutes we got a table and had a great meal. \u00a0Steve ordered crab legs…..2 full dinners of them! \u00a0This is after we had an appetizer of these great cajun pepper steak bites, and he also had a bowl of Gumbo! \u00a0I had the salmon. \u00a0All was delicious and we took desserts to go – strawberry cream pie and some chocolate whipped cream layer thing. The tire held, we made it back to the RV with no issue and it was great to get out to dinner. \u00a0Gerry had fun with Kathleen and their yellow lab Dozer.<\/p>\n

We were bummed about the tire, but it could have been so much worse. \u00a0It could have blown out while we were driving the day before, pulling the RV, which took us through Anchorage and more traffic than we’ve seen in a long time. \u00a0Or we could have been stuck on the side of the road with the RV in tow. \u00a0So we are not complaining. \u00a0We found a Dodge Ram dealership in Anchorage and went there on Monday. \u00a0At first they thought it could be repaired, then decided it had to be replaced. \u00a0A 2 hour time estimate turned into a day and a half – yes, after waiting around all day, they decided right before they closed at 7:00 Monday evening they couldn’t get it finished and we should come back at 11:00 Tuesday morning. \u00a0We had requested a few other things be done while we were having work done at the dealership – fuel filter change, oil change, front and rear differential (I still don’t know what that is), and since the tire couldn’t be repaired, 2 new front tires, balanced. \u00a0We now have over 17,000 miles on the truck (which was just purchased new in November). \u00a0So it was time to get a few things done.<\/p>\n

We got a rental car and did some grocery shopping and a Target run while in Anchorage. \u00a0Gerry was wiped out after a day in the big city as you’ll see in the photo below! \u00a0When leaving for the night, we happened upon this great little restaraunt called the Lucky Wishbone. \u00a0Been in business for 60 years and specialize in pan fried chicken. \u00a0So we got to go orders and drove to a beautiful turn out along the Cooks Inlet on our way back to the campground and ate overlooking the water….life is good \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The truck was ready the next day as promised and we got to spend some time with internet connection and catch up on banking, mail and phone calls. \u00a0A few pictures below. \u00a0Stay tuned for another post soon from this area with lots of pictures, I promise!<\/p>\n

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Driving into the Portage area, along Cooks Inlet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Double Crab Leg Dinner!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Hello again! \u00a0We moved to the Portage area on Saturday July 22nd. \u00a0A beautiful area, on the Turnagain Arm, along Cooks Inlet. \u00a0About 1 hour south of Anchorage. \u00a0Had a great drive from the Denali area. \u00a0I’m going to do a separate post on the Portage area with lots of pictures. We woke up the … Continue reading Flat Tire and a Birthday Dinner<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}