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Skagway Slideshow
Skagway
Travel Blogs from Skagway, United States
White Pass and Brothels
Our trip today consisted of a Train Ride through the White Pass into Canada, a salmon bake and show, a tour of a brothel! Now thats what I call a full day. Well as you will see from the pictures our scenic train ride was undone by some very nasty ...
The final leg of our drive...
Sunday July 8, 2007 Today was our last leg of our driving extravaganza. We all woke up this morning and got our coffee's, breakfasts, and then cleaned up and got on the road very shortly after 9am. Hmmm... did I mention we drove all day again?! ...
Another sunny day in Alaska
... that we went into town to check out the same shops that are in the other ports. Had some great local beer at the Skagway Brewing Company.... Finally had time and found a liquor store to buy wine and water. Went back to ship and grabbed a few sandwiches ...
Skagway
... couple had driven campervans around Australia and New Zealand with a group and fondly reminisced about this experience. In Skagway we became friendly with a Canadian couple from Ontario who had travelled all over the US and Canada in their ...
Skagway
... much wonder waiting outside your window. We were up at 5:30 so we could watch the world go by. The ship pulled into Skagway at about 7. Another leisurely morning. Breakfast delivered to our stateroom, then slowly getting ready for the day. We went up top ...
Jewel Gardens Glass Blowing Experience
At the Jewel Gardens Glass Blowing Experience guests are able to watch a demonstration of professional glass blowers at work, and then get a chance to assist the blower to make their own hand-blown glass ornament. Afterward there is a "fancy tea" ...
Gold Rush!
... as lucky this time. We did find a few flakes. We enjoyed and excellent lunch here, then headed out of town. Unlike Juneau, Skagway is not landlocked. There is a single road out of town which leads to Canada. We traveled slowly up the mountains, stopping ...
I can't believe I'm writing this...
... knowing you've helped someone; it's wonderful. Yet, being here in Skagway has put me between a rock and a hard place. I've never worked or exercised so much in my life nor had my own ...
Adjusting to living and working in Skagway, Alaska
... potato-sized nuggets of gold. When miners came back down the arduous trail -- many without finding any gold at all -- they ran into these same "reporters" who stayed comfortably in the camps in Skagway. Hence the name "Liarsville" was ...
MOUSE TAKES OVER ALASKA
... eposide is brought you by the word sketchie.. heheh the reason being is because my net connection is sketchie here in good ol skagway .. heheh the forgotten land of the klondike, and former brothols heheh.. anywho, we are in w/ the dimond today, is super ...
Gold rush destination
After sailing overnight we arrived in Skagway. Port for those arriving by ship for the gold fields and the terminus of the White Pass and Yukon railroad. This was our first port of call in Alaska and our first taste of the many outlets selling ...
Old gold rush town - favorite stop
In port 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. This is the smallest town (population 800) and we had the longest time here. Kept the way it would have looked during the Klondike Gold Rush all. We shopped. We toured the Yukon goldrush camp, Liarsville, ...
Her way in Skagway
... along the Alaska Panhandle was only vaguely defined in the late 1800's. There were overlapping land claims from the United States' purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 and British claims along the coast. Canada requested a survey after British ...
Day 23 - Whitman Recreation Site (second time)
Day 23, August 24, 2010 Whitman Recreation Site, (second time) We left Skagway this morning after spending a surreal three days there. Since we had lived briefly in Skagway 4 years ago trying to start a business, we had friends to look up and memory lane ...
Skagway made it into the Guinness Book of Records!
... ask for our passports, just waved us through. We continued our descent past a lake or two and then through the back streets of Skagway. This was a great tour on a sunny day, but it might not be as fun if it was pouring with rain! After all ...
Dock repping -- meeting cruise ship passengers
In addition to working at the Liarsville Gold Rush Camp in the gift shop in costume, I also have another job "dock repping" for both the gold camp and jeep tours. I explain dock repping in detail on the blog (ctssyount.blogspot.com), but here are ...
Skagway Alaska my new home
It has been over 6 months since I have been able to put my trekking pack down and have a bed and a home to call my own. I landed this amazing position where it is my job to make people smile and happy. I work for the White Pass Scenic Railroad from May ...
A Big Day in Skagway
... . The train ride was definitely one of the high lights of the trip. After a nice lunch, we spent the afternoon hoping in Skagway. The town is small, basically 4 blocks wide and 6 blocks long. Although all the towns we stop in have made cruse ships a big ...
Day 11 Skagway Alaska
... are on the set of a western cowboy movie set, the entire town looks straight out of the movies! A John Wayne western! Now Skagway only has +/- 900 registered residents, but in the summer season, they are invaded by over 3000 tour guides, this is the ...
Skagway and the Yukon
... trip was "British Barry," a British (no joke!) expatriate living most of the year in San Diego, but spending summers in Skagway driving a tour bus. Barry regaled us with tales of the area and its history, with colorful people like Soapy ...
First real tour
Ok, so I'm now more than half way through my first real tour...Got off my last cruise on a Sunday, went to the office and was told my next tour was starting a couple of days later so really only had time to do my laundry and then head out again. Flew ...
the little train that could
... pictures show a lot more than my puny words. There are from 5-7 ships that dock each day at the ports we visit-Skagway, Juneau and Ketchikan. Though mining and timber still play some parts in the economic stability of those places, it is the ships that ...
Skagway
White Pass
Today we have been in Skagway and travelled on the White Pass and Yuokon Railway. The rolling stock would be familiar to Wellingtonians back home, with the engines dating from the 1950's and the passenger carriages have an average age of 40 with one ...
Skagway
... was fun to do something different. There were at least 4 big cruise ships in port when our ferry pulled in. Skagway is definitely a tourist trap. Shops just line both sides of the 4 main streets. Got situated in the campground and ...
Into British Columbia and back by Railway
... ; They want us to stay! :) Today we took the White Pass Yokon Railway into Frasier, B.C. and then returned to Skagway by the Alkan Hwy. The sites are phenomenal! I have to apologize.... I have been trying to send pictures ...
Alaska here I come
... up at the border as I need to get a visitor visa - quite a scary process, figure print scans, photos.... So finally at Skagway, Alaska I go in search of Celia...back to the days where plans had to be prearranged (neither of our mobile phones worked, ...