7-23-08 Day 26 Homer to Anchorage

Today begins our return trip back home. We woke up to another cold rainy day. We go for breakfast and get on the road around 10. Coming into Homer you come down a 2 -3 mile long hill down into town. As we head up it this morning the fog gets thicker and thicker until we have maybe 100 foot visibility. Needless to say this slows us down. Fortunately after another 10 minutes the fog clears out and the rain is left. We keep plugging along for another few hours and stop for lunch around 1:30 when we finally get to someplace with food. After lunch we start the last leg to Anchorage and Pete comes over the CB and says he needs to stop. Turns out one of his mufffler tips lost the inner pipe. We continue on to Anchorage and go to the Harley dealer. While working on the tip Pete notices the bracket holding the muffler(which is also the lower saddle bag bracket) is broken as well and his trailer hitch is cracked. The dealer has a new bracket which we install and Pete fixes the tip with some parts from NAPA across the street. Pete decides to put tie wire & clamp the trailer hitch. We have dinner and head to the airport to drop off Donna & Doreen then go to our hotel.