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The Trip of Our Lives Recap

Blogposts from The Trip of our Lives 2023 are finally complete. This post provides an outline of where we went, what we saw, and links to posts associated with each stop.  If you haven’t seen any of the posts, you may want to start at the beginning. Near the bottom of each post, there is […]

Our Alaska Farewell

Although Fairbanks didn’t have the natural beauty of the rest of our stops in Alaska, it was a great farewell. It’s a lot more fun to experience history first-hand than read it in a book! We rode a big train, a small one, and a sternwheeler. We panned for gold, saw a sled dog demo, […]

Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula

The land portion of our Alaskan Cruise Tour is finally underway. We experienced the longest highway tunnel in North America, horrible weather turned quite pleasant for great views off the deck at our lodge, and an eleven-mile float trip down the Kenai River was one of our favorite excursions so far. No bears or moose, […]

Alaska’s Capital City

In Juneau today we visited the awe-inspiring Mendenhall Glacier and its falls. Nearby we breathed in the purist air on the planet near some old man’s beard. A catamaran to Colt Island at Orca Point Lodge included a beautiful and delicious luncheon, with whale-watching on the return, and Duck Farts and beer finished off our […]