Category: Alaska

We were scheduled for a long stop in Icy Strait Point today, from 8:00am until 6:00pm. While Cathy and I really like the Icy Strait Point visit, many people don’t because “there’s nothing to do”. Maybe that means that there’s little shopping – I’m not really sure, because there’s...

Day 3 on our Alaska cruise out of Vancouver on the Celebrity Millennium was a port day, in Ketchikan. Despite a weather forecast calling for a chance of rain, it was a beautiful – perfect for our flightseeing trip into Misty Fjords. I caught the Alaska pilot’s boat leaving...

One of my nieces has just moved to Whitehorse, and yesterday we took her to see Skagway and Dyea. Despite a mediocre weather forecast, it turned out to be quite good, and it no doubt would have been a good day whatever the weather turned out to be. Our...

It’s now Sunday morning and I’m back home after a superb 12-day trip through the Yukon and Alaska. The first photo is the view from our breakfast nook at 07:00 when I started writing this. Another beautiful dawn in Anchorage – this was shot from my suite in The...

The early dawn light yesterday morning as seen from my hotel room at 04:45. The intersection of 4th Avenue and E Street at 04:50. A corner of the lobby of the our hotel, The Historic Anchorage Hotel. We got away on our city tour at 09:00. We had no...

It’s such a shame that we had to leave Denali on a sunny morning! But, off we went at 9:00, heading south on the George Parks Highway towards Anchorage. About 40 minutes later, I stopped at one of my secret spots, a large complex of beaver dams. Construction of...

Yesterday was our earliest start, as the departure time for our Tundra Wilderness Tour (TWT) into Denali National Park was 06:50. Although I heard my group go much earlier, I dawdled and didn’t get to the Courtyard Cafe in our hotel, the McKinley Chalet, until almost 06:00. I was...

Yesterday the people in my group had a somewhat different day than I did. While they traveled to Denali National Park in a glass-domed railway car, I went ahead with the bus. We don’t normally do early starts on these tours, but there are two – we had to...

Yesterday was our day to explore Fairbanks. This was my 1-bedroom apartment at the Wedgewood Resort. This was the view from my apartment yesterday at 03:29, half an hour before sunrise. There’s lots of interesting stuff to look at on the walk over to the restaurant, which is at...

It’s looking like it might be a very cool and wet summer this year, but there are soooo many things I want to do and see! We’re probably not going on any cruises this year, but there are lots of short trips on the list of options. I’ve been...