Blogs from Juneau, Alaska, United States, North America - page 6

These are pics from Justin's residence. Lots of old cars and mechanical stuff. We went and visited an old woman friend who lived in Austin for 30yrs - her place was nestled down at the bottom of a bank/cliff. Totally secluded. The pic out the window is from her place, as is the blurry pic of her and Justin. Also pics from downtown last nite.... read more

NORTH TO ALASKA – day 2 = Friday. I am visiting my Landlady –Karen – who hosted a HUGE party at her palatial estate! Complete with a 6 pc band that were absolute Pro’s. I got to sit in for 2 songs (you knew that was coming). Tons of great food – great people…… The only bummer is that I unknowingly dropped my GoPro camera in the middle of the festivities , and someone ran it over and I am afraid it is toast. LUCKILY- Karen has one too- so I am borrowing hers for the rest of the trip. I will post some of those pics as soon as I can. Not doing too good with finding phone or internet reception out here, and this will continue to be a challenge.... read more

The Dramamine is finally wearing off – that stuff is evil. Never again hopefully. Slept like a baby though. Today has been this: up at 11am – had two eggs and toast, back to bed. Up at 2pm, had a bloody mary with Marie and Bob - the old couple I met – they are rich and cool. Then back to bed for a catnap until 6pm. Oh how I love sleeping. Sleep. What a concept. You can only sleep when you have absolutely nothing to be accountable for. That is why my cats sleep all day. I would too. BUT- I wanna see the planet up here in Alaska. Super foggy and really cant even see shore all day. Going to hit the restaurant tonite for something other than food I brought, which is running ... read more

Next on the tour was Alaska’s capital town of Juneau. Many campaigns to move the capital to Anchorage have failed and this small tourist town, isolated from roads in or out, is still home to Alaska’s first family. We took and adventurous bike ride which took us to nearby Mendenhall Glacier. The base of the glacier ends at a small lake with a spectacular waterfall. The bike ride was pretty easy as biking goes, but perfect for tourists who haven’t been on a bike for few years. The glacier cooled air was a joy to breath as we rode through paths in the forest where one of our guides provided new words to challenge us by. These were pretty interesting terms such as glacial isostatic relief which describes the unweighting of glacier pressure on the ground, ... read more

Hello everyone! Wow. I don't really know where to begin. We left Seattle and got our coach to Vancouver. The coach crossed the border from the US into Canada so along the way we had to get off and go through customs. We finally arrived in Vancouver which looks like a really interesting city. No time to stop though, we had queueing to do! We got to the cruise terminal and queued for hours. We had to go through immigration again as our ship was going to sail back into the US. We finally made in onboard our ship at 4.30 and we set sail at 5.00. We found our cabin which is lovely and the window looks right onto the sea. Our ship is mid sized and when full it has 1400 passengers and 600 ... read more