Category Alaska 2013

We are flying out of Philadelphia this morning. Our United flight was to leave at 6:00 AM. We had planned to get up at 3:45 but everyone was up before that and we were out the door by 4:45. It…

We arrived in Anchorage and made our way to the Westmark hotel. The view from our room on the 14th floor is spectacular. Here are some pictures of that. It doesn’t get dark here until 10:30. We have been traveling…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

Today we are at sea. Most of the morning we saw just ocean around us. Mom and I went to see a Salmon cooking class, it was not very interesting. Then we decided to take a walk on the promenade…

We woke up this morning to a beautiful sunrise over the mountains on the way into Vancouver. We headed up to our last breakfast in the Lido buffet and then came back to our rooms for the final few pictures…