Friday 8th September On the road again! And heading back down south from Fairbanks. The weather this morning was so much better than the day we drove north so our views for the drive back down were much better. We stopped at some overlooks that had been rained in on…
Not surprisingly we slept in this morning! We had slpet to late for the hotel breakfast so ate the last of our muffins and coffee to get the day started. We needed to sort out our tings which we’d just dumped on the floor before crawling into bed at 4…
Tuesday 5 September It was brighter this morning when we woke. We breakfasted on Muffins and berries that we’d bought yesterday in Seward and hit the road by 9am. We needed to backtrack along the Turnagain Arm road as far as Anchorage before winding up past the Knik Arm inlet…
Sunday It was bucketing down with rain when we woke VERY early this morning. Whittier port looked a little dreary! We had been allocated a disembarkation time of 6.40 am so we were up at 5.30 to have time for breakfast and to be ready to go when our group…
It was nice to have a slow start to the day today. The ship would be cruising north long the Gulf of Alaska and then into Prince William Sound around late morning. In the later afternoon we would enter College Fjord for the really scenic part of the day.We were…
We set our alarm early for the day we’d been looking forward to the most. Today we visited Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve. This was really the entire reason we had booked ourselves on a cruise as although it’s possible visit this National Park independently, it’s much easier to…
Today started with a Rookie error! We had been advised that the ships clocks would go forward one hour at 2am on the night before we arrived in Ketchikan. We set our alarm early as we had an early shore tour booking – we’d get up at 6am and so…
In our itinerary today was listed as “Scenic Cruising the Inside Passage”. The early part of the day was in fairly open water so not a lot to see but later in the day we started crusing through more enclosed waters with views to the heavily forested landscape on either…
Day 1 We flew into a city that has been blanketed in smoke by the British Columbia fires! From the air it was very hazy and not much better on the ground. However our first time arriving into Canada was a dream as far as immigration and customs were concerned.…
One of the benefits of booking a suite on the ship is an early boarding time. We’d been advised to check in with Group A at 10 am so we were up and breakfasted and heading out the hotel door at 9.50. We rolled our bags down the block and…
It’s a roundabout route but with frequent flyer points to burn I was keen to get us to Vancouver in comfort. which meant snapping up whatever route Qantas was offering. So the first leg of our travels takes us to Tokyo for a day! As we have never been to…
It’s hard to believe we’ve reached the end of our marathon trip! We woke early in Hyannis and after breakfast packed up the car again for the last full day drive. ( As an aside, this hotel wasn’t our favourite. It was clean and spacious but a bit old and…