Alaska Marine Highway to Ketchikan
June 3rd 2011 This afternoon we drove our car and camper onto the M/V Columbia (Alaskan Marine Highway System). Alaska has more coastline than the rest of the US combined, and more than half of its coastal cities are unreachable by road. In 1960 (just one year after statehood), Alaska voters passed a bond issue to initiate a state-owned Marine Highway System that would connect these communities. The ship can
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