The Farmer's Wife and Big Tom are the first to wake up and take in the view. What a view it is! Even from the RV park which is just a 3/8 mile from the airport the view is stunning. A range of mountains are on one side, still covered in snow, scale the heights. Light aircraft are flying out of the airport and look like flys when they get close to the mountains.

A quick visit to the airport to see if Lyndon's bag has arrived but there's no sign. The tracing system has no record of it so things are not looking good. Lyndon has to borrow some clothes from the Farmer's Wife. The sight of Lyndon in one of Victoria's skirts was not a pretty sight.
Eventually we all gather at the office at the RV office and we meet Paulette, otherwise know to us Wholewheat Radio listeners as Latitude59 who has kindly offered to drive the RV to the World Music for the Kenai Solstice Celebration Kasilof. It was nice to put a face to a name after all the emails that had been flying back and forth between us with the Visa Fiasco. Lyndon, Paulette and Tom collect the hire gear and manage to fill up Paullete's Subaru. Back to the RV Park and stow the gear in the RV and the last pice of paperwork and we're finally on our way.

The drive to Kasilof is simply stunning. We're driving through mountain ranges and lakes and rivers made of glacial water of the deepest green. Lyndon has never seen anything like and we are all pretty amazed at the views. We arrive at Kasilof at Mike Morgan's place. Mike has a large plot of land and has built a open air venue in his back yard. It's a fantastic place and we're welcomed warmly by Mike and company.
We also get to meet Sol and Fine-line, a couple of regular listeners to Wholewheat who have made the trip up to Alaska from Washington to see the Mice!

On the bill is Radoslav Lorkovic who plays some excellent boogie woogie and blues piano and accordian who is coming to London at the end of July. Keep an eye out for him, you won't be disappointed. At around nine o'clock and it's time for the Mice to take the stage. They're off and the crowd are loving it. The locals are up dancing and in no time the band have won the audience over. The gig is over at 11:30 pm and it's still not dark yet. We're about to experience our first Alaskan midnight.
Thank you, Mike Morgan for a fantastic venue and all at Kasilof for making us so welcome.

We've been invited to stay at Paulette's friend, Mike Nadeau, who has a beautiful house not far from Moose Pass.

- posted by Tom @ 11:46 AM