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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, […]

Mt. McKinley Wilderness Lodge

With only one night at Mt. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge, our time may have been better spent relaxing by the massive fireplace and learning more about “The Great One”. Although hind-sight is 20/20, so if Jim’s very poorly-planned float trip had been marvelous instead, this would be an entirely different narrative! Click on the first […]

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, […]

Scenic Cruising: Grand Finales

The last two days of the cruise portion of our Alaskan Cruisetour were spent at sea. Since both days were absolutely spectacular, I decided on two grand finales. Two very different experiences provided two very different emotional responses to the icy waters of Alaska, its snow-capped mountains, and its remarkable glaciers. Click on the first […]