The time has finally arrived for our trip to Alaska. We have been planning this trip for a year and is our 20th anniversary present to ourselves. We have been in Canon City for the past 3 days with our motorhome parked in Dorie and Ann's backyard. We will leave it here while we are gone. They will take us to the Denver airport tomorrow and then pick us up on Sept. 5 when we return.
We have been packing and repacking and repacking for the past few days. Originally we thought we would each need 2 suitcases and a carry on. But believe it or not, we have cut down to one suitcase each and a backpack on the plane. And with the heightened security for getting on the plane, the backpack will have only our books, tickets, binoculars and camera. Now for the biggest shock............I am leaving my laptop at home. I will go through withdrawal, but this will be a test to see if I can do without it. Actually, the idea of carrying it on and off of planes, trains and buses, and cruise ships, just seemed like it would just provide one more item to be concerned with. So no laptop for me!!!
I will be using the hotel computers plus the cruise ship has computers at outrageous rates................so expect maybe a brief update on the blog and/or brief e-mail note.
As far as today goes, the motorhome is filled with plastic ziplock bags. There are the bags for each of my 5 pills/vitamins and each of Barb's 3 vitamins. Then there are the bags with shampoo, toothpaste, etc. and the bags with cords and jump drives for the camera and bags with the tissue products and bags for the disinfection cleaners and bags for each of the over the counter meds..........like pepcid, advil, etc, and then bags for , oh, I don't know what.........but we have bags.
Briefly to let you know our schedule:
Tomorrow we fly to Anchorage, stay over night and then take the train to Denali National Park. We are part of a Wilderness package in Denali. We spend one day at the Denali cabins, then the2nd day we take the bus to the Katishna Lodge about 3 hours into the park, take hikes and tour Wonder Lake; 3rd day we drive back to Denali Lodges, and spend the night there. All meals are provided and we have been told they are gourmet. Hopefully we will see the mountain and many forms of wildlife.
We leave Denali on the 4th day, take the bus back to Anchorage, stay a night, and the fly to Ketchikan, where we pick up our cruise. We will be on the CruiseWest cruise line and will tour the Inner Passage. What we are most excited about is that this is a small boat, holding a maximum of 105 passengers. It is able to go into the coves and bays and get up close to the glaciers that the larger vessels cannot do. It will be very exciting!!!! We will be on the ship for 8 days.
When we dock in Juneau, we stay overnight and then fly to Sitka. Our friends, Cherly and MaryAnn, have invited us to spend Labor Day weekend with them. So we will get our own personal tour of Sitka and have a chance to visit with friends we have not seen for a while.
We leave Sitka on Sept 5 and fly back to Denver. Dorie and Ann will pick us up at the airport and bring us back to their home in Canon City. We will be here for the rest of Sept. and spend the time touring Colorado.
I will try to send bried updates on this blog of our trip.
Our love to all of you.
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