Shawn

On Monday morning we arrived in Ketchikan at about 9:30. We had the morning to walk around town before taking a float plane out to Misty Fjords National monument. This is the view coming into town. Lots of float planes…

We woke up early as the sun was coming up because the Captain had told us that the best Whale watching opportunity was going to be at 6 AM. Since the sun comes up very early, you don’t need to…

We left Whitehorse Yukon Territory, Canada this morning bound for Skagway Alaska. The first part of our journey was by motor coach. We stopped several times along the way for pictures. First we saw some baby eagles in a nest…

Today we headed out of Dawson for the 9 hour drive to Whitehorse. The drive was pretty and we stopped a few times along the way to stretch our legs or take pictures or eat. We had a stop at…

This morning we got up and had breakfast at the hotel and headed out on a rafting trip on the Klondike River. We started just outside of Dawson and floated back into where the Klondike joins the Yukon in Dawson.…

Today we left Tok Alaska headed for the Yukon. It was going to be an 8 hour drive which we were not looking forward to. Our tour guide Matt and our bus driver Lance loaded the bus just after 9…

Last night we went to the top of a mountain above Dawson to take pictures and toast the midnight sun. It’s called the dome. The views were beautiful in every direction. Someone built a little log bench so we got…

Tuesday August 6th Today we had some free time in Fairbanks to look around the town before heading towards the Yukon and Tok. We walked downtown from our hotel by way of a scenic bike path that ran alongside a…

Monday August 5th. Today we reluctantly left Denali National park for the ride to Fairbanks. We rode the McKinley Explorer train again this time north to Fairbanks. This is the northern most town of any size in Alaska. It is…

Monday August 5th This morning we woke up a little later than we had been since we had an 8:00 start today. We had breakfast at the Sourdough restaurant on site. They had handkerchiefs for napkins and tin coffee cups…

Sunday 8/4/2013 Today we got up very early to take an 8 hour train ride to Denali. We had hoped to take a flight trip to Mt. McKinley to land on a glacier. We boarded the McKinley explorer train for…

We started the morning of Saturday 8/2 the Alaska Railway headed from Anchorage to Seward to see the Kenai Fjords national park. The train ride was about 4 hours but was not moving very quickly. We saw beautiful mountains and…