Anchorage-Skagway-Whitehorse – back home
As much as I love traveling, I love getting home too (though I could easily have delayed the arrival home from New Zealand for another month or so 🙂 ). The trip from Anchorage to Whitehorse yesterday was fairly complex, and not an itinerary you’ll find on any travel-agent database. From Anchorage to Juneau was on a Boeing 737 with Alaska Airlines, from Anchorage to Skagway was in a Cessna 207A belonging to Wings of Alaska. I then switched to ground transport, getting to Carcross with Chilkoot Tours, and Cathy picked me up there. The weather was shockingly cold for the end of July, and after plowing though heavy rain for a few miles up Lynn Canal, there was fresh snow on all the peaks near Skagway.
The photos below show the view from the observation lounge at Anchorage, our departure from Juneau (the Mendenhall Glacier can be seen in the distance), and the approach to Skagway.
This morning, we had frost and minus 2°C in Whitehorse! But despite a lousy weather forecast, it is sunny finally, and a soak in the hot tub erased the frost from my mind 🙂
We picked up a couple of flowering crabapple trees at a good nursery sale yesterday – this will be a good day to get them planted and then just chill out.
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