so...this years summer vacation...
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Alaska (end of july)
sort of a bucket list thing.
the travel will be long but interesting, we fly from here to dubai, and then have an emirates A380 flight direct to san francisco direcly over the north pole. a few days in SF with family and then SFO-anchorage.
there we have a car and will be tooling around for ten days, on the itinerary are a boat day trips in the kenai fjords national park, and also to the columbia and meares glaciers near valdez (remember the exxon valdez?)
taking a car ferry across prince williams sound, ( love it, thats where captain cook hung out while looking for a northwest passage) and staying mostly in airbnbs in tiny fishing villages here and there.
eventually flying back from anchorage to NY for a few days in the city, and then home.
at least thats the plan. anyone been to alaska?
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Beatutiful area. I have been a couple of times. Kenai peninsula is very nice.
Inside passage is nice also, but cannot get to by car.
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ok back. ill get to pics wheni have the energy
bottom line....im lucky that ive been to many nice places in the world. but nothing prepared me for the beauty that is alaska,. specifically, and i think this is what attracted me so....its so fucking empty. its the place to go to really just get away from all the shit.
in another life time i could easily see myself living there..ok maybe this weekend ill post a few pics
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In the summer of 1986 my grandfather took me on an Alaskan trip. It was the summer I graduated from high school.
I flew out to Vancouver and met him there. We spent a day or two at Expo 86 in Vancouver. Then we boarded a ship and did a cruise up to Juneau, hugging the beautiful Canadian coast on the way up. The cruise was mostly retirees. One girl my age was on the boat, also someone’s grandkid along for the ride. I walked up to her and said ‘I guess you and I are hanging out the next few days’. (No Mik, I didn’t close the sale)
Then we traveled around by plane and bus to see major sights. Anchorage, Fairbanks, McKinley, some Inuit villages. I remember seeing the famous pipeline and getting a lecture about how it was engineered.
Great trip and the only significant one-on-one time I ever spent with my grandfather.
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In the summer of 1986 my grandfather took me on an Alaskan trip. It was the summer I graduated from high school.
I flew out to Vancouver and met him there. We spent a day or two at Expo 86 in Vancouver. Then we boarded a ship and did a cruise up to Juneau, hugging the beautiful Canadian coast on the way up. The cruise was mostly retirees. One girl my age was on the boat, also someone’s grandkid along for the ride. I walked up to her and said ‘I guess you and I are hanging out the next few days’. (No Mik, I didn’t close the sale)
Then we traveled around by plane and bus to see major sights. Anchorage, Fairbanks, McKinley, some Inuit villages. I remember seeing the famous pipeline and getting a lecture about how it was engineered.
Great trip and the only significant one-on-one time I ever spent with my grandfather.
@jon-nyc said in so...this years summer vacation...:
One girl my age was on the boat, also someone’s grandkid along for the ride. I walked up to her and said ‘I guess you and I are hanging out the next few days’. (No Mik, I didn’t close the sale)
We are disappointed, didn't Juneau.
@bachophile sounds great, I've heard similar reactions from others who have gone there (like my parents in law). Would be nice to visit one day.
