Eklutna Lake

Public Use Cabin Rental: $50
Kayak Rental: $25
Supply of "camping food": $52

Biking 20 miles, walking 6 miles with a toddler strapped to your back, then finishing up with a 5-hour, 13-mile kayak excursion until every bone, joint, and muscle in your body is screaming for mercy... priceless.


This is how the kids and I spent the past two days. I have no need or desire to do another stitch of exercise for the next 5 years.

We arrived home from kayaking at 11:30pm only to discover that the kitty needed to have a drop of medicine put in his eye every hour for the next 24 hours! So much for those daydreams I'd been having of a nice comfy warm bed while I was freezing out on Eklutna Lake paddling against the wind towards a shore which only seemed to get farther away.

My arms hurt so badly all night that I could barely hoist the kitty each hour when my phone alarm went off waking me from my doze.

I returned to work today feeling like a moose had stomped me a few times and left me by the trail.

Stephen brought the cat to the vet last night to have his terrible oozing eye examined. Apparently he has kitty herpes, and could have kitty AIDS, which has attacked his eyes. He has an appointment with a kitty opthamologist tomorrow morning in Anchorage. We presume he'll need eye surgery as he has an ulcer in his eye which almost perforates the eyeball. Please keep him in your thoughts.