Blogs from Seward, Alaska, United States, North America - page 7

Seward, Alaska, 27 juin. Trois jours déjà que je suis arrivé à l'autre bout du continent. Après un court moment à Anchorage, j'ai pris la direction sud vers la péninsule de Kenaï où je ne cesse de m'émerveiller. Les montagnes, la mer, les animaux (j'ai vu loutre, aigle à tête blanche et ours noir déjà), tout est à couper le souffle! Deux coup de coeur jusqu'à présent: le petit village de Homer, tout au bout d'une pointe de sable et de gravier, avec un décor de montagnes d'une saisissante beauté. Le tremblement de terre de la semaine dernière a donné toute une frousse aux habitants du coin, une alerte au tsunami ayant été déclenchée (rien de tel ne s'est heureusement produit). Je suis maintenant à Seward, une jolie ville au creux du fjord de la résurrection ... read more

June 6th Ekdutna Lake Campground mileage at 9377 48 degrees at 10:10 and mostly cloudy Drove down to the boat ramp area to look at the lake. The campground, lake, and road are in a deep, narrow, mountain pass formed by a glacier and the river out of the lake. At the boat ramp area we noticed again, what we have seen by all other Alaskan boat ramps, a stand full of children’s life jackets under a sign that says, “kids don’t float.” Drove back to the freeway south out of Anchorage and went just a few miles before it abruptly went into a narrow two lane road and back into the typical forest environment. If you have been following our trip on a map you can see that we are heading toward the Kenai Peninsula. ... read more

Well, we managed to fit everything into our bags… that’s quite the impressive feat if you can visualize how much crap both me and Mom bought. (Not to mention 3L of alcohol… not exactly flexible with our packing there). We got off the ship quite early – at 7:30am – to make our transfer from Seward up to Anchorage, Alaska. We had booked the transfer/tour with Alaska Cruise Transfers… yeahhhhhh, our driver was awesome, but the set-up at the cruise terminal was a complete and utter joke. Without being funny. In their instructions, they stress that you cannot leave the terminal area because they will walk around with a sign for where to go. At 8am we had to be in the terminal with our bags, for departure at 8:30am. Funny, at 8:15am there was still ... read more

I’m writing this blog very aware that it could read like some proverbial “Christmas letter” full of bragging and pretty boring and unmemorable. Dear Friend and Reader please use your Christmas etiquette and pretend. Yesterday, we left our beautiful campsite in Homer and started every so slowly back to Seward. A new friend we met in Homer stated it was hard for her to adjust to big city life (like Homer!) since all her life, time was tied to the tides. The village she grew up in had 12 inhabitants and she was home schooled until she went to the university. We don’t wear watches and our time is tied to when we get hungry. This makes moving slowly and taking lots of pictures easy. It also confuses us when we need to hurry and get ... read more

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21ST When my brother called and proposed this trip, he told me it was going to be the adventure of my lifetime. Well, since I feel like I’m on a new untried path, I jumped on the offer. Each day I have new and untried adventures here in Alaska, i.e. Saturday we were taking a walk around a lake and Dick reached down and picked up “something”. “Bear scat” he said. A few steps later he bent down, picked up “something” and said, “Moose scat”. Scat is obviously a technical term for “something” and I’m not into something that adventuresome. I knew I was afraid of bears but moose looked sweet and warm fuzzy until I read a poster giving the warning moose signs. It appears moose are not the brightest animal on the ... read more