Category: Tours & Excursions

This is blog post #27 from our tour of northern Europe. On Thursday, July 24th, we anchored off Lerwick, the main town on the Shetland archipelago, and tendered into town. We began by looking around the town, then went on an excellent bus tour from there to the southernmost...

This is blog post #15 from our tour of Europe. On Monday and Tuesday, July 7th and 8th, we were at sea on our way to Iceland. On Wednesday, July 9th, we tendered ashore at Húsavik and took an all-day bus tour called the Diamond Circle, “a magnificent circuit...

It snowed all day today. The temperature has sat at 0°C for most of the last 18 hours. When a wind arrived with the snow about noon, it was simply awful. It’s not even October yet. Also today, Keith Halliday posted an article in the Yukon News entitled “Your...

On Monday (August 10th), I dog-sat while the rest of the group took a shuttle bus to the Eielson Visitor Center and back. On Tuesday, it was my turn. Cathy and MJ really wanted to see the dog sled demonstration, but other than that, noe of them had any...

Our second full day in Seward would have lots of variety, and we split up for a while. Our first job of the day, though, was to find a new place to park our motorhomes. Unable to find a site at the City’s waterfront parks in town, we had...

On Wednesday night (August 5th), we settled in at Seward for our first multi-night stay of the trip. We had 2 major activities planned for Seward – a marine wildlife tour and a visit to the Alaska SeaLife Center, and then whatever else might come up. On Thursday morning,...

A couple of weeks ago, I happened to notice a comment on Yukon Energy’s Facebook page that they were going to do a tour of their power production plants (both hydroelectric and diesel) the following day, and I popped a note off to them to put me on the...

On Monday, our last full day in Europe, we took a 7-hour coach tour into the countryside around Amsterdam with Key Tours to see windmills and wooden shoe and cheese-making places. It turned out to be an excellent choice. The view out our hotel room overlooking the canal Prinsengracht...

Yesterday we took an 11-hour bus trip to Wonder Lake in the heart of Denali Park. While the scenery is always spectacular and I love seeing any animals up close, it’s the grizzly bears that make or break a trip for me. From that narrow perspective, yesterday was a...

Yesterday was our day in Denali Park, on the 8-hour Tundra Wilderness Tour (TWT). The weather started off ragged, but the forecast was good. This is Mount Healy, right above our hotel. The lobby area of the hotel is a busy place in the morning, with hundreds of people...