"Don White" wrote in message
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In article , naled24511
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Loogypicker wrote:
On Jan 3, 9:59 pm, "Don White" wrote:
"Steve B" wrote in message

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Jan 9 - 16, Sapphire Princess. San Diego, points south in Mexico,
then
back to San Diego.
I haven't been to sea since 1980. Should be interesting. Hope there
will
be enough to keep me busy during the times at sea. Hope my mal de
mer
follows previous trips and settles down after 24 hours. Hope for
calm
seas. My trips for work were pretty boring during after work hours.
I am
particularly interested in leaving and coming into dock, and will
find a
good spot to watch that. One that I can see the pool from at the
same
time, too.
Or is that ship? Anyway, a BIG boat.
Steve
I've been checking out all the discounted last minute fares for cruise
ships
out of Florida to the Eastern Caribbean.
Some of the deals are looking good.

Your buddy Harry has chastised the hell out of others here that take
cruises. He doesn't like it, so no one should.


That's right, loogy...I don't much like the city-sized cruise ships.

So, will you be made at ME, your "little buddy" if I take a cruise?

whoop whoop...** Jackass Alert **

On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 19:18:40 -0800, "Steve B"
wrote:

Jan 9 - 16, Sapphire Princess. San Diego, points south in Mexico, then back
to San Diego.

I haven't been to sea since 1980. Should be interesting. Hope there will
be enough to keep me busy during the times at sea. Hope my mal de mer
follows previous trips and settles down after 24 hours. Hope for calm seas.
My trips for work were pretty boring during after work hours. I am
particularly interested in leaving and coming into dock, and will find a
good spot to watch that. One that I can see the pool from at the same time,
too.

Or is that ship? Anyway, a BIG boat.


Steve


Hope you have a great time, Steve. I'm thinking of surprising my wife
with a Disney Cruise this fall. I'm hoping Disney will have an Alaska
cruise soon.

John H wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 19:18:40 -0800, "Steve B"
wrote:

Jan 9 - 16, Sapphire Princess. San Diego, points south in Mexico, then back
to San Diego.

I haven't been to sea since 1980. Should be interesting. Hope there will
be enough to keep me busy during the times at sea. Hope my mal de mer
follows previous trips and settles down after 24 hours. Hope for calm seas.
My trips for work were pretty boring during after work hours. I am
particularly interested in leaving and coming into dock, and will find a
good spot to watch that. One that I can see the pool from at the same time,
too.

Or is that ship? Anyway, a BIG boat.


Steve


Hope you have a great time, Steve. I'm thinking of surprising my wife
with a Disney Cruise this fall. I'm hoping Disney will have an Alaska
cruise soon.


Linblad has some great cruises in concert with National Geo.
Real ships, too...not those wedding cake cruise ships.
Also, for a real cruise on a real ship...try cunard's queen mary II...it
cruises the carib.

"John H" wrote

Hope you have a great time, Steve. I'm thinking of surprising my wife
with a Disney Cruise this fall. I'm hoping Disney will have an Alaska
cruise soon.

I have heard so much about Alaskan cruises that I want to take one. Know
people who are jaded world travelers, and to a person they rave about the
Alaska trip. I think that only the hard core cruisers would go, therefore,
the company (people) would be of a better class. I am not a fan of cold,
but I think I could tough it out. I had a chance to go on a gold mining
project in 1974 in Alaska, to the Alaska pipeline, or to diving school, and
I chose commercial diving school. Sometimes I rue my decision to go South.
My brother was a crab fisherman like on TV in the early 90's when no one
knew they existed. I think I'd like everything but the potentially rough
water. BTDT. May check it out after this little experimental puddle jumper
cruise to Meheeeeeco.

Steve

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:03:21 -0800, "Steve B"
wrote:


"John H" wrote

Hope you have a great time, Steve. I'm thinking of surprising my wife
with a Disney Cruise this fall. I'm hoping Disney will have an Alaska
cruise soon.

I have heard so much about Alaskan cruises that I want to take one. Know
people who are jaded world travelers, and to a person they rave about the
Alaska trip. I think that only the hard core cruisers would go, therefore,
the company (people) would be of a better class. I am not a fan of cold,
but I think I could tough it out. I had a chance to go on a gold mining
project in 1974 in Alaska, to the Alaska pipeline, or to diving school, and
I chose commercial diving school. Sometimes I rue my decision to go South.
My brother was a crab fisherman like on TV in the early 90's when no one
knew they existed. I think I'd like everything but the potentially rough
water. BTDT. May check it out after this little experimental puddle jumper
cruise to Meheeeeeco.

Steve


I see Disney will have one starting in April 2011. I reckon we won't
go anywhere this fall, but may sign up for that one.

Damn, I sure hate to miss two weeks of golf!

"Steve B" wrote in message
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"John H" wrote

Hope you have a great time, Steve. I'm thinking of surprising my wife
with a Disney Cruise this fall. I'm hoping Disney will have an Alaska
cruise soon.

I have heard so much about Alaskan cruises that I want to take one. Know
people who are jaded world travelers, and to a person they rave about the
Alaska trip. I think that only the hard core cruisers would go,
therefore, the company (people) would be of a better class. I am not a
fan of cold, but I think I could tough it out. I had a chance to go on a
gold mining project in 1974 in Alaska, to the Alaska pipeline, or to
diving school, and I chose commercial diving school. Sometimes I rue my
decision to go South. My brother was a crab fisherman like on TV in the
early 90's when no one knew they existed. I think I'd like everything but
the potentially rough water. BTDT. May check it out after this little
experimental puddle jumper cruise to Meheeeeeco.

Steve


Not that cold in the summer when they cruise. Look at Cruise West. Small
boats, wifes anut and uncle have taken a couple. Rave about them.

"John H" wrote in message
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On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:03:21 -0800, "Steve B"
wrote:


"John H" wrote

Hope you have a great time, Steve. I'm thinking of surprising my wife
with a Disney Cruise this fall. I'm hoping Disney will have an Alaska
cruise soon.

I have heard so much about Alaskan cruises that I want to take one. Know
people who are jaded world travelers, and to a person they rave about the
Alaska trip. I think that only the hard core cruisers would go,
therefore,
the company (people) would be of a better class. I am not a fan of cold,
but I think I could tough it out. I had a chance to go on a gold mining
project in 1974 in Alaska, to the Alaska pipeline, or to diving school,
and
I chose commercial diving school. Sometimes I rue my decision to go
South.
My brother was a crab fisherman like on TV in the early 90's when no one
knew they existed. I think I'd like everything but the potentially rough
water. BTDT. May check it out after this little experimental puddle
jumper
cruise to Meheeeeeco.

Steve


I see Disney will have one starting in April 2011. I reckon we won't
go anywhere this fall, but may sign up for that one.

Damn, I sure hate to miss two weeks of golf!

Check seasonal weather patterns, as it would probably be nice to go when you
can actually see something.

Steve

I have heard so much about Alaskan cruises that I want to take one. Know
people who are jaded world travelers, and to a person they rave about the
Alaska trip.

We did that last June and it was great. I recommend flying into
Fairbanks and doing the land tours first as you work your way south to
catch the boat in Whittier. We used Princess Line for both the land
tours and the cruise. They did a great job with both.

On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:05:58 -0500, wrote:

Taking a cruise to Alaska and expecting to actually see Alaska is
like going to Epcot and seeing Germany.
It is an OK way to watch whales and Princess will load you up on a
bus to go see Denali but you pretty much see what you can from the
window of the bus.

We signed up for all of the side trips including a flight around the
Denali summit in a small turboprop, a helicopter trip to the top of
the Mendenhall Glacier, a jet boat excursion through the eagle
preserve on the Chilkat River and a float plane ride back into Misty
Fjords. I'd like to drive up there in my 4WD truck sometime and
tour the back country but it would take all summer and I'd never get
my wife to go along.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:05:58 -0500, wrote:

Taking a cruise to Alaska and expecting to actually see Alaska is
like going to Epcot and seeing Germany.
It is an OK way to watch whales and Princess will load you up on a
bus to go see Denali but you pretty much see what you can from the
window of the bus.

We signed up for all of the side trips including a flight around the
Denali summit in a small turboprop, a helicopter trip to the top of
the Mendenhall Glacier, a jet boat excursion through the eagle
preserve on the Chilkat River and a float plane ride back into Misty
Fjords. I'd like to drive up there in my 4WD truck sometime and
tour the back country but it would take all summer and I'd never get
my wife to go along.


We did that a few years ago. 7 weeks and 8800 miles. Would not do it
again. Lots of boring driving in Canada. Rolling hills, and dead trees,
and millions of dead trees. Denali is ok for a day or two at most. We had
reservations at the campground for 3 nights and left after 2. Lots of rain
that year. And unless you are hiking miles, you will see everything from
tour bus. We were among the 15% of the people who actually see Denali.
Clouds cleared for about 15 minutes. Buddy and wife took the sightseeing
plane. Fantastic. We were suffering from some crud we caught in the Yukon
and had ear problems, so passed on the trip. Buy a Special Olymipics
discount book at Safeway in Anchorage and you get 1/2 off the airplane, etc.
Well worth the $99.