A Cozy Log Bed and Breakfast Juneau

... otters, bald eagles, sea lions, puffins, mountain goats, jellyfish, and glaciers - there are lots of glaciers in Alaska. The train ride back was also great, we saw a very nice sunset as we came around the coast just out of Anchorage.
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Next day I was back on a train, this time to Whittier. It was a shorter ride, just 2 hours, and the weather was pretty awful - rain, rain, and more rain. We did see a brown bear on the coastal cycle path just out ...

... are old pros and seem to whip into any spot with ease.

Yesterday we went to the Mendenhall Glacier. It’s about 12 miles from downtown Juneau. We were able to take the city bus to within a couple of miles and walk the rest of the way. It was beautiful.

As I write, Tim and Ben (our transmission mechanic) are in the engine room installing Pearl’s rebuilt transmission ...

... up tickets for later, and have the driver drop us at Safeway on the way back.I know eating out is a big thing for many people on vacation, but we love to grocery-shop. You have more choices: selection, food preparation, when to eat, and you save money to spend other ways! And I'm always looking for stuff we can't find locally.


Terri starts the journal entries as Bailey, our travel dog, takes five.

We arrived in Juneau, the capital of Alaska, at 7:30am. It is only accessible by sea or air - no roads lead to Juneau. We had an early breakfast and headed ff to meet our excursion group for ziplining thru the rainforest.There was 10 of us. We thought Beulah, at 78, would be the oldest but there was another couple, both 81 years of age. There were 5 different ziplines, but the first was the scariest. We were about 70 to 100 feet above the ground at 1 point and zipping ...

... more confused as we were going back into town the same way we had come. Then we get to an industrial park which I thought was an odd tourist attraction. Then I noticed some buses were parked close by. The driver yells - is the other bus fixed - someone yells back "yea just don't turn it off". So we switched buses from one with a broken microphone to one which I have no idea what was broken.

Now the tour began again and we drove ...

... these "waves" the entire time. Many chances of slipping and falling were avoided due to our guides and gear. We climbed an ice wall as well with ice axes, which was fantastic! The wall is over twice as high as the once at home that Marcy and I climb in Sarnia. It was a great day! The show tonight was a comedian and then we all went to "Dancing through the Decades" in the Crow's Nest. Tomorrow is our last port, Ketchikan.

Hello One and All- Well it's been a little bit since the last log on so let me tell you whats been going on. On Thursday, Brian and I were pretty adventurous and went out on our long hike. We started out on Perserverance Trail which is mainly flat except for the beginning. We saw some beautiful waterfalls (Ebner Falls) and great views of the old mining area. About two miles into the hike ...

Day 64 Dawson City - Skagway Leaving Dawson City and heading towards Whitehorse and final destination being Skagway. The road was a much better drive than the prior experience of the top of the world as well as the Alcan from Whitehorse to Tok. Basically a run through a valley previously dredged for gold and forests that had suffered forest fires at some time. We arrived in Whitehorse and filled with Gas (petrol) and Propane (LPG/Gas) and a top up of fruit ...

... three days until he went to work and was told by other employees that he shouldn't be coming in anymore. Half of the staff was laid off and funny thing is, only the dump screwed employees were kept and the honest hard working ones were dismissed. The old as well as the new owner are so false and dishonest. We can't talk to them in the right way and we had quite some trouble. We still have to figure out a few things, but we've both been looking ...

... was docking the farthest from downtown. It's about 1 1/2 miles away. Royal Caribbean has bus service (for fees - not sure how much) from dock to downtown and vice versa. When we got off the ship, and the line was so long. We saw there was a taxi and decided to take it instead. It costs us 7 dollars to go to downtown. It's expensive but it's worthed as the the road is a constant going up.
Juneau downtown is ...