Journey home
2018年9月15日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 16 °CBA - In economy (us), 2 of the 4 “washrooms” unserviceable, headphone socket not working, people allowed to bring on more than one case and some with ones so big they took up the whole overheadもっと詳しく
BA - In economy (us), 2 of the 4 “washrooms” unserviceable, headphone socket not working, people allowed to bring on more than one case and some with ones so big they took up the whole overheadもっと詳しく
Coming to the end of nearly 2 days at sea, we got all excited on Tuesday night, as we’d been told there was a high chance of a Category 6 (?) Aurora Borealis between 11pm and 3 am.
So, after aもっと詳しく
After the dogs, the bus took us over the White Pass at 3200’ to Fraser. So, we left the US and entered Canada (briefly).
On the vintage train back - the W P & Y R (White Pass & Yukon Route), weもっと詳しく
A very small town with an interesting history and pivotal role in the Klondike gold rush:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skagway,_Alaska
Our first stop if the day was to the Iditarod sled dogもっと詳しく
23C in Juneau today - unusually warm and sunny, and we’re so far North!
The Juneau Ice Field feeds a number of glaciers, and the tourist attraction is Mendenhall Glacier, about 5 miles out of town.もっと詳しく
Well, we were unlucky last year when we sailed up Doubtful Sound and Milford Sound in NZ: it rained and rained, we didn’t see anything of Doubtful, but we did see the waterfalls in Milford.
Notもっと詳しく
14,000 year long population, swelled by cruise ship passengers. Our trolley bus guide told us that, last week, there were 4 ships in and the visitors almost outnumbered the residents. Today there areもっと詳しく
So, a day at sea, and a fascinating talk this morning by marine researcher, Brent Nixon. He said: if you see birds, then there’ll be whales nearby!
As the day went on, we looked for signs of animalもっと詳しく
... Starbucks, and now, the shopper’s friend, Amazon!
Arrived in the city at 9 am - learned a lot about paramedics (that was our driver’s full time job) - and he said that the principal cause ofもっと詳しく
旅行者 I have enjoyed seeing your photos and reading the blog. Welcome home.