Category: Alaska Cruises

I’ve just posted my usual photo album / review of this Alaska cruise on Holland America’s Amsterdam, and a bit of a land trip – just click here to see it. We took two excursions during the cruise, a custom boat tour with Captain Davey Lubin in Sitka that...

It’s just after 0500, and the MS Amsterdam is a couple of hours from our rendezvous with the NPS rangers who will guide us around Glacier Bay for most of the day. It’s 55 degrees with a light misty rain and a cloud ceiling of perhaps 4,000 feet –...

When you’re standing in front of a glacier, it’s usually all but impossible to get a sense of scale – there’s just nothing close to it that you can compare it to. If you get lucky and see the glacier calving, just how big is that splash?? On my...

July 20, 2006: Princess McKinley Lodge to Anchorage – 138 milesI got up just after 3:00 a.m. to see if I could catch the first light on Denali, but was a bit too early, and the light wasn’t good. This shot was taken at 5:50 a.m., with a fog...

It’s great to be back home, but it’s only for a few days, and am I busy! The focus since I got home has been to get my cruise review/album posted, and that’s now up at my YourAlaskaCruise.com site (though it’s one of those big projects that I’ll be...

The adventure is over, but we have memories that will last a lifetime. Cathy and I got home last night after getting off the Radiance of the Seas in Seward, Alaska, taking a bus to Anchorage and staying there overnight, onto a jet to Juneau and a Cessna 207...

Due to really poor Internet connections on the ship, I gave up on posting while at sea the past week. Dad and I arrived back in Seattle early this morning, took the Quick Shuttle bus to Vancouver, and he’s about half-way back to Kelowna right now, while I’m at...

I’m just about to head down to the airport to board my flight to Vancouver, where I’ll board a cruise ship bound for Alaska. I checked in an hour ago so I could get a window seat for what promises to be a spectacular flight, and took this photo...

For many Northern residents, the best judge of when Summer has arrived is the amount of work that needs to be done. For most of us, Summer is a very busy time – not only work-busy, but play-busy. I’m lucky that I can often combine the two. Yesterday I...

The Internet makes researching travel substantially easier than ever before, but you’d never know it from some people’s experiences. A comment from a very experienced Alaska cruiser who arrived home yesterday from another trip North sums it up nicely: …some highlights for future visitors – be well prepared in...