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Juneau and Inside Passage
We travelled to Juneau from Ketchikan on the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) - that is the Alaska State Ferries. This took about 34 hours. We left Ketchikan at 10:30pm and stopped at Petersburg the next morning, then at Sitka that night for an hour or so. We had time to take a bus into Sitka for a quick look around the town that used to be …
Arrival in Juneau
The big adventure started before even leaving Geneva airport. After having checked all possible flight combinations back in March, I still decided to go for a one-way ticket from Geneva to Alaska. Jason and I had both spend quite some time on the internet and phone to talk to authorities making sure this would not be a problem. Guess what? It was a …
Our new home
My sweetheart Jason and I have been very lucky to find nice people willing to help us in settling fast and easy in Juneau. After sleeping two days in a rather expensive hotel room, we moved today to our permanent nice apartment. It's part of the hotel we were already staying at, but it has an open kitchen, wooden floor and a bigger living area. We …
Our accomodations: From good to hell to great
First things first: Jason and me left the Breakwater Hotel after we got a call at 8:30 am saying "You know you guys have to be out by noon, right?" No, we guys didn't know it because no stupid idiot ever shared that important information with us. Anyway, we packed our things and we started making calls to other hotels checking prices. The choice …
That was a long ferry ride
But now it's over and other than a rush to load my bike up so I could get off the ferry without holding up the loading of new faces, it was uneventful. My tie-down straps worked well although I couldn't release them after the deckhand had battened them down at the start of the trip. Bike did not move at all, I'm sure. The straps date from 2 bikes …