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I'm actually going on a boat
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:45:37 -0800, "Bill McKee"
wrote: "Wayne.B" wrote in message .. . 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. thanks for the tip. |
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