Blogs from Alaska, United States, North America

On the road at 8:20 today with a quick stop at the gas pumps to drop a quick $117. Gas here is $4.29 per gallon, and I'm sure the price will continue to increase. Being that these RV's get around 9 miles to a gallon the fuel costs are quite high. I will have a total expenditure at the end of the trip. We all loved the Tok RV Village as it was clean, had trees, and the spots were not on top of each other. It was a welcome treat after our last stop. We saw a couple of Great Alaskan Holiday rigs there also enjoying the stop. I met a couple that had driven all the way from Florida. They are taking an unlimited amount of time to tour the country and said the ... read more

Today is supposed to be a great day, especially for Ketchikan where it rains something like 260 days per year! There was no rain in the forecast and the temperature was upper 50s. We woke up before 8am, got ready and went up for our usual breakfast. I took a couple of photos of the ship pulling into port, but they didn't turn out that well, because the window was dirty. We both got blueberry pancakes with whipped cream and a ham and cheese omelet. Manoli also got some fruit. By 10am we were off the ship and started wandering around. We'd heard that the Creek Street district was definitely worth seeing, so that is the first place we went. This was the original part of Ketchikan, and where the women owned all the houses, mostly ... read more

Another good night's sleep and we were docked in Skagway. Apparently I slept a bit too long, because it was almost 10am when we went up for lunch. We both ate breakfast like yesterday, waffle, poached egg, sausage, etc. When we finished breakfast, we left the ship to check out Skagway. Apparently we had two fellow ships docked with us to day, one from Royal Caribbean and one from Princess Cruises. The ship was docked pretty close to shore, and it was an easy walk to Skagway. There was also a train called the White Pass Railway that went through the edge of town. We walked downtown and started checking things out, mostly the souvenir shops. There were also a couple of interesting old buildings, one was the Railroad Building from 1900 and the other was ... read more

After a pleasant, long night sleep, we woke up around 7am or so. We'd decided we were going to eat breakfast, since it would be a long day, and it was free. We got dressed, and headed upstairs (we were on Deck 9 and the cafeteria was on Deck 10). We got to the cafeteria area and started browsing the food. Most serving areas have names, and some of them are fairly common, in that they are still there the next day. There were Asian, Thai, The Carvery, Salads, Make Your Own Salad, Desserts. etc. We both got a small dish with an egg and spices, and watermelon pieces. Manoli got scrambled eggs and a half a grapefruit, and I got a very tasty belgian waffle. We took our time eating, and just enjoyed the views. ... read more