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All Aboard We started off our journey in Vancouver on a cruise ship- the Volendam	What a party and sendoff! Margarita's and Mai Tai's We headed to Alaska aboard our deluxe cruise ship!
We took a helicopter ride up to the glaciers in Skagway and walked on the tip of the mountains and the glaciers	What a thrill, but not for the weak of stomach! You cannot be afraid of heights as the helicopter takes it's dips and turns through mountains and glaciers. NO this is not martian landscape, although it looks a bit like it with all the dust and rocks that the glaciers carry through!	What's this, is she afraid of heights?

Nope, just making a snow angel at the top of the world!	Snow Angels in Heaven!	Yes even I get in pictures once in a while!! It was hot, and I got a sunburn!
Our cruise ship took a side trip down Tracy Arm Cool, a place named after me? Anyhow, it was breath taking. The photos cannot do justice to it, since the proportions and dimensions are off. Everything was so large, it does not show as well in photos- guess you will just have to visit this place!		OK, this might give you a little perspective, here is a piece of ice floating in the water. Remember, icebergs only show around 10%. The bottom 90% are usually submerged!
This was from our Whale watching cruise in Juneau yes, there is an entire page of photos just from this side trip!	Ooh, what does Elyse see in the forest around the lower lake in Skagway?	Here is our naturalist Saren

Ok, are we ready for the next leg, wait a minute, that is not Kathy. . . . .	Here we have our resident train buffs on the Train ride to WhitePass Yukon route	Our local videographer- I am hoping I get a copy of those videos!
Great ice cream in Carcross	Can you imaging taking this to work?	A little faster and more in style!
Well, we are here We made it to the Yukon!!!	Hmm, I though you said there was tons of wildlife and Nature, looks like smoke from forest fires to me!!!!	Ok Elyse, have patience, I am looking for you, you did not miss anything yet, except 17 1/2 hours of permafrost and burnt trees!

Our Rock skippers were curious if it made a splash!	Nice puppy!	On to the Dog Mushers, there were numerous Iditerod champs here!!
Hmm, the only kisses we got on this trip!	Beautiful dogs and amazing with two colored eyes!	Many of them were extremely friendly and loveable!
Kluane hmm, looks like another good place to skip rocks!!	and the contest is on- the honeymooners were taking the contest seriously!!	I think she stepped in every lake and pond across Alaska and Canada! Mighty cold water, air temperature not too bad!

Here we are, the most westerly town in Canada	We had to get even with our fearless leader for her little "shortage" tales!
Well, even out here in the boon docks I can still get a martini!!	campfire "some mores" Ok I skipped the burnt marshmallows and just ate the gram crackers and chocolate!
Welcome and lets toast the great couples!!	Bonnie and Mel were celebrating!

Oh, here are some more anniversary couples Lou and Nancy	310 miles from anywhere or is that we are 301 miles into nowhere!!
	I guess there was not a shortage of TP after all!!
	Here are our little ladies at Rika's roadhouse Liz and Joanna

Here is our group what a nice bunch of people!!! Give yourselves a hand!! You know there can be many wonderful sights, but it is the people who make the journey memorable and unforgetable!!!	ok, we are off on the McKinley Explorer- to the next adventures.. . . . . .. Alaska and Denali
Gilligan's island? No not really, this one one of the best parts of the whole trip. We took a 6-8 hour tour of the Kenai Fjords. It was breath taking! We saw the glacier up close and calving into the ocean, we was more animals in one day that the entire 11 previous days. It was pretty, and was definitely something not to miss. ( This was not part of the tour, we rented a van from Anchorage, drove down to Seward and got on a tour boat!!! Well worth it- check our those pages!!)	On top of the world, literally! This is the view high up on the glacier!!!! Makes you feel very small and realize how incredible nature really is! Those rocks or boulders to be exact were moved by the glacier!
Another series of glaciers in the background!	Whoa, be careful where you walk! You would not want to fall into those crevasses!

Elyse had to try to taste, touch or swim in any body of water we found- here she is sampling the Kluane, yes is is very smoky in the background- they forgot to tell us that in August, there are a ton of forest fires in Alaska!!! There happened to be 123 to be exact, only 58 of which they were trying to stop!

If I had known that, I would have stayed away from the interior and only done the coastline!

In case you missed the first part of the trip

Vancouver to the Yukon. . . .

Tracy Arm and the inside passage

Whales- incredible creatures of the seas

Helicopter ride and walk on glacier

The White Pass and the Yukon Trail

Beaver Creek

Dog Mushing

Native American villages

Gold Dredge #8

Denali and the Tundra tour

Kenai Fjords- Nature in action

Glaciers in the Kenai Fjords

Glaciers calving

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