Trip to Nenana & Campground Pot Luck

This past week has been really busy for us.  We took a little trip North to visit our friends Jeannie and Dean Theel and Mary Olson in Nenana.  Roger and Dean made 70 lbs of moose sausage and Jeannie, Mary and I made caribou pasties. 

Dean checking his sausage recipe

Roger checking out the "stuffer"

Millie & Roger "resting"

The following day, we all went 4 wheeling along Dean's trap line trail, the power line with views of Minto Flats, and checked out some moose hunting spots for Dean.  We even came across a hay field in the middle of the bush.

Dean & Jeannie at hay field

Riding along the trap line trail

Mary Olson on trail

Think this is really that many volts?

View of the Minto Flats from the trail

Low Bush Cranberries

Jeannie in a High Bush Cranberry patch

After our ride we went back to Jeannie and Dean's sons cabin where he has a nice stone fire pit and a Finnish Sauna.  We bar-b-qued caribou hamburgers and potato/vegetable packets, had a little of Dean's raspberry wine and s'mores for dessert.  We sat around the fire pit after dinner and then we fired up the Finnish Sauna and took a sauna.  What a way to finish out the day!

Mary, Jeannie & Dean enjoying the fire pit

Roger and Sue around the fire pit

On 9-11 we had a nice pot luck picnic at the Cantwell RV Park with friends and neighbors that we've met while here.   Jim and Eileen supplied the hamburgers & hot dogs along with fresh salmon that Jim caught.  He fixed the salmon several different ways; traditional with tmaple omato and lemon, jalapeno; and maple/brown sugar.  We cooked up some of the moose sausage links that Roger and Dean made and I made some caribou pasties to share.  Others brought lima beans and ham; chicken soup; sausage, cheese & crackers; potato salad; many desserts and watermelon.  What a feast - as always!

Some of the friends and neighbors to the Cantwell RV Park

What a nice looking group of people!

Workkampers Dennis & Marilyn Delo; Sue & Roger Harju in front of the office

We're on our last week here at the campground.  We head for the lower 48 by the end of this week.  We are going to try to see the Aurora Borealis tonight, we'll see if we can view them or not.  Until our next adventure.....