Alaska

We were busy in Fairbanks! We experienced history first-hand with trains, gold, sled dogs, a pipeline, a native village and a salmon bake!

This post includes a great tour of Denali National Park with a view of Denali! We learned about the Iditarod and held a Husky puppy!

With only one night at Mt. McKinley Wilderness Lodge, our time may have been better spent relaxing by the fireplace learning about Denali.

The land portion of our CruiseTour is underway, and an eleven-mile float trip down the Kenai River was one of our favorite excursions so far.

The last two days of our cruise were spent at sea, providing very different emotional responses to the icy waters of Alaska and its glaciers.

In Skagway we learned about the gold rush, had a dapper storyteller/tour guide on a streetcar, and the float down the Chilkat was fantastic.

In Juneau we saw the awe-inspiring Mendenhall Glacier and its falls, and breathed in the purist air on the planet near some old man’s beard.

This post covers an at-sea day, 17 bald eagles, squirrels in a canoe, a former red-light district, and awesome views of the Alaskan waters.