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There is a particular thrill that comes with the first day of a journey, don’t you agree? It especially applied to our recent one, a...

The sunshine and hot temperatures next day were perfect for our cruise up the 65 miles of fiord that was Glacier Bay. After passing numerous ice floes; one carrying a bald eagle and another with some seals, we found the reason for all the floating ice when we stopped to view the impressive Margerie Glacier and witnessed several instances of ice calving off the face. The blurry areas are evidence of ice having just fallen off the glacier and splashed into the sea Next day, Ket

The main street of Skagway The day following our Juneau stop, our ship berthed in Skagway. During the gold rush of the 1890s, this was...

Juneau is the capital of Alaska, something we hadn’t realized with its position so far south from the state’s main land area, and there...