Today Tom and I actually had time to get out of town. We drove south to Portage Glacier – actually a little recon mission in preparation for our visitors coming up this summer. We’ve been in this city of Anchorage going to doctor’s appointments and getting shopping done for so long that we forgot we were in Alaska. Today was really special. We did not go more than one hour from Anchorage but we felt like we were in another country. We saw Dall sheep on the mountainside, two eagles, a moose and a bear. The bear ran across the road in front of us in a photo rest area. Roxy nearly went through the window – I couldn’t take a photo because it took both of us to hold her back. We drove around the corner, still watching for the bear and we saw this man coming quickly out of a little nature trail area. He was white as a sheep and appeared to be shaking and was walking pretty fast. Tom lowered the window and said to him, “Let me guess, you saw the bear!” It was wild! The man was a little shaken but he did manage to say, “That was not a little bear!” It wasn’t …glad we were in the truck. .