Halsingland Hotel Haines

... was pretty much a do nothing day which is okay with me. <br><br>I checked the Pantagraph and see that CCHS won their football game against Pontiac - whoo hoo!!! When my nephew (Christopher) attended CCHS and they played football against Pontiac and Fairbury, my sister and I always worried about him getting hurt because both teams play dirty.<br><br>We're in Victoria British Columbia tomorrow so I'll chat with you then.<br><br><br><br>

... as a narrator. Bill kept waiting to see George Carlin or Ringo Star and we think that the Brakeman is the Conductor until we see the real Mr. Conductor. He is a character from the past. A living breathing train Buff. He is a caricature. We watch helplessly from the car as the characters scurry about. <br> The brakeman is jumping from car to car cranking on the wheels that control the brakes and making adjustments. He is smiling and ...

... a movie set! The Saloon Town look meets Storyland, NH. It's still raining a little so the camera stays bundled in its bag. We stop in at the train depot to check on where to board, then decide to duck into the most penultimate pinnacle of touristy tourist places to have a quick cocktail, the former brothel, The Red Onion. <br> It is packed with boisterous cruise ship folks and waitresses cinched into corsets and the ...

Boarding the ferry to Juneau from Haines the next morning the 28th, we met the biker crowd again. One couple was a woman State Department officer from Prague and her husband, now retired from the military. They are moving from Cracow to Prague for her next assignment, and they will have a great time in that excellent city. The couple from Tampa was there, along with a two-motorcycle set that had to tow one of the bikes to get its ignition started. Their boarding of the ferry ...

... and tourist shops (it seems that is most of Skagway), when Jane&#8217;s telephone rang to confirm our Glacier Bay arrangements. <br><br>Sunday we finished the laundry early and cleaned the coach. Jim managed to do a little coach preventive maintenance (tires, batteries, oil, and tow bar). We also checked the airport parking and looked at the other RV parks in town.<br><br>Monday was a planned rest day with no real ...

... we left because the rock music was too loud.<br><br> We had so much fun with the people in this campground. Had lots of laughs with the Oklahoma guy that fished every day about being bear bait. The picnic tables by the water were perfect for chatting with people and watching the two seals that came around in the evenings. Spent several evenings around the campfire with a great group of people from ...

... of orcas a way off, as well as numerous birds including bald eagles. The Tongass State Forest stretches right up the Alaskan coast covering about 17 million acres so as you can imagine it&#8217;s pretty wild country.<br><br>We got talking to a guy about our age from Michigan who was working as a bear guide in Ketchikan so he gave us some good pointers on the town, to which we were headed.<br><br>When we arrived we set up camp at a state forest site just outside of town, which was set on a ...

... a good look at it. The vintage engine in back isn't bad either. <br>There's laundry to do, so we do that, and groceries to buy (hmm... where should we go?). We get all the way back home from the store before we realize we forgot to buy charcoal for the grill! No problem. A return trip to Howser's later, and it's dinnertime, so we walk up the street for a halibut dinner at the Bamboo Restaurant. It's another great ...

... a log cabin structure that looks like it's been around for ages. Terri's a little put off by the patina that's settled on every surface inside the place, so I order a burger and fries to go, and we head back, stopping alongside the highway for an impromptu picnic lunch. Terri makes a sandwich from the groceries we bought, and I have no problem downing the burger, but the fries are another story entirely. They're so limp, soggy, and glistening ...

... br>From there we stopped at Amalga or Eagle Harbor where we had been told eagles sometimes fish, but the only thing jumping there were the fish. They were jumping all over the water, but the eagles didn't seem to want them. <br>Since the morning was passing quickly, we returned to the trailer to get some lunch and close down to head to the ferry. <br>We were first on the ferry this ...