Glennallen to Valdez to Cordova

We have spent the last 2 weeks staring at huge mountains and glaciers surrounding us. From Glennallen we took 4 days to get to Valdez. We had to climb our last pass of the trip over Thompson Pass, which was not too bad from the North Side. We spend a night at Worthington Glacier camping on the airplane runway (on accident), and had the most beautiful skies that have opened up for us to see the amazing scenery. In Valdez we watched all the fisherman come in with pounds of fish, met up with Max, the travelor from Belgium, and tried to get a shower, but it cost $10 a person. Frankly I would rather have a huge hamburger or fresh fish instead of taking a shower for $10 a person. We took a ferry from Valdez to Cordova that was 3 hours long. We got to see a little marine wildlife, but had blue skies the entire way. Cordova is known for the Million Dollar Bridge and Child's Glacier. There is one road in Cordova that leads from the town, 50 miles to the glacier. We heard that the road is closed at a bridge at mile 36, but we did not know what that meant. Maybe a bike could squeck by. When we arrived to Cordova, we rode 18 miles out into fog. We could not see 100 ft in front of us. The next day the sun came out and it was beautiful!! We made it to the bridge and it is missing 30 ft of the road! We hung out, enjoyed the scenery, and watched bald eagles and a seal in the water. This seal swam up from the ocean to eat all the salmon that were running up the river! On the way back to mile 27 where we were going to camp, we spotted a brown bear that was walking in the river. It was around 50 ft away, and walking over a stream towards us. We took many pictures of it and it was awesome!  We did not feel in any danger (don't worry Moms). We camped on an island and viewed the many mountains surrounding us. We have a few more days in Cordova, and then we will ferry over to Whittier and finish our trip in Anchorage. This trip has gone too fast!