After Juneau, it was off to the compact city of Skagway in southeast Alaska, which is set on the Inside Passage a popular cruise route. It’s home to gold-rush-era buildings, now preserved as part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. https://www.nps.gov/klgo/planyourvisit/visitorcenters.htm. The White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad runs vintage locomotives past the famously steep Chilkoot trail and […]

After Ketchikan, we headed to Juneau, which is Alaska’s capital, and is also the state’s second largest city. It is a unique destination for a myriad of reasons.  Juneau sits nestled up next to the Gastineau Channel in the Alaskan panhandle with no connecting roads to other cities – making it only accessible by water and air, including via Juneau […]

This summer we will be heading up the East Coast as far north as Bar Harbor, Maine, then going across the top of the US to places like Vermont, Niagara Falls, Toledo, and Mackinaw Island. As we continue our quest to sleep at least one night in every state in the nation and to see as many national parks as […]

Before we head out on our Summer Trip, we managed to sneak in a cruise to Alaska on the Celebrity Solstice out of Vancouver.  We spent the night before the cruise a few blocks from the cruise terminal. Check out the beautiful view we had from our hotel room. We awoke to the cool sight of our ship pulling into the […]