Trips for Alaska

My third trip to Alaska in three years… Since I arrived back from my short winter trip to Alaska in March 2008, I’ve been thinking about heading back up in the summer of 2009. I am on a budget like a lot of folks, so I started saving for this tri …

June 13, 2004, Portland I arrive in Portland at 11:20am local time. From the airport I take a cab to the shipyard, leave the luggage at the door, and have my first meal onboard. It is not bad at all. It is Semester at Sea's first voyage with …

First visit to Alaska… In the summer of ’07, I lived out of a backpack and traveled throughout the Interior & Kenai Peninsula of Alaska by myself for 17 days. It was the ‘best’ trip that I had taken! Early that year, my co-worker in Anchorage and …

Our trip began in Bellingham, WA with a flight on Alaska Airlines to Seattle ,Seattle to Juneau, AK and then on to Gustavus, AK with a shuttle ride to Glacier Bay Lodge. Part of the package with the lodge included dinner at the lodge resturant …

We landed bright and early in Anchorage after a great (although very early) morning flight. Picked up the rental car and we were on our way. Our first stop was Earthquake Park. It was nice to stretch our legs on the short, nicely paved trail …

Anchorage is located in Alaska State, USA. Anchorage city is the largest city of Alaska. Anchorage city has beautiful climate in its short time summer season. More rush is gather in this short summer. Alaska most visited city in the world, I thin …

The bf and I are not good vacation planners. The main reason is a regrettable lack of practice. But we decided that we were going on a vacation this summer and that we were going to Alaska. It's somewhere we've wanted to go for a long time …

I had always wanted to go to Alaska so this summer my dream came true- and we took the Royal Caribbean cruise to bounty-ful Alaska. We could not have asked for more pur-fect weather. We took a week long cruise aboard the Royal Caribbean which …

Second visit to Alaska… I was curious to know Alaska was like in the winter, I wondered what the ‘darkness’ was like and how cold it got. So I made plans to head back during the winter of ’08. I stayed with my co-worker in Anchorage. We attended …