Our trip to Alaska has come and gone; now we are left with lots of pictures, a slide show, a DVD, souvenirs, journal entries, but most of all we have our memories. We saw a landscape that is unbelievable and visited cultures whose tribal stories trace their origin to the ocean. We were close enough to a pod of whales to smell their breath. It was an unbelievable adventure and we want to share it with everyone. The problem is how to cram all this into a blog. So I've decided to do two or more blogs that will be mostly pictures with explanations. Our trip started in Seattle on May 1, where we stayed one night in the Roosevelt Hotel, right in the heart of Seattle. The next day we had a few hours to
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