Roadtrip

Mother and I headed out on the road Thursday morning and went to Homer for the weekend!

It’s a 250+ mile trip along the coast though some very beautiful country. That’s quite a long way to drive, but between the two of us we managed in about 6 hours or so. We stopped a few times along the way to get out and stretch, eat a bite of breakfast, and switch places so the other one could drive for a while.

We left my house around 7:30 in the morning and hit Homer around 2:00 – just in time to check in to our hotel room and take a much-needed nap!

The Hotel we stayed at was called the Ocean Shores Hotel, and was quite nice. Actually, it was quite ugly from the outside. They had these long buildings of room after room after room, side by side, and a long walkway in front. However, the insides were very nicely done, with comfortable beds, a small table to sit at while, and a view to die for!

As their name might imply, they had a gorgeous view of the ocean, with Mount St. Augustine in the background and all the birds along the beach. I really wanted to have the back door open while we slept, so that I could listen to the waves crashing up onto the beach, the birds arguing over their dinners, the fishermen excited over their catch… but it was just a little bit too cold for that. Besides, while Homer is a small town still, they are getting bigger – and one never knows exactly who is rooming next door (they did just have their first homicide in 20+ years).

We didn’t get to spend too much time in and around Homer, since the purpose of our trip was to head over to Seldovia for the day on Friday. But, we did get some time to do some sightseeing.

Homer’s new library is a big deal in the “green” community as it is one of the first LEED Silver building in Alaska. We had to go see that, of course! We had a little trouble finding it at first, since we had forgotten to bring along the address with us the first time we went out. When we finally did find it, we realized we’d gone right passed it – of course… isn’t that how it goes?

It’s a beautiful building.