Our Alaska Video Our long anticipated adventure is finally winding to a close. We awakened Saturday morning to sunrise over Vancouver. We said goodbye to our home for the past week, and to Michael's Club - we'll miss them and they assure us they will miss us,...
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Cruising the Beautiful Inside Passage
Today was less hectic. It was a day at sea. We relaxed a bit. Some of us took a couples massage class. One of the things we learned as we took our turn at giving our spouse a massage, is that we are not so limber as we used to be! The scenery as we cruised...
Ketchican
Yet another wonderful day. Ketchican. It's a tiny village perched at the base on mountains right at water's edge. It's accessible only by water or air and is one of the obligatory ports of call for cruise ships. Since we did not have a shore excursion booked and...
Formal Night II a.k.a. Fun Night
We all dressed up for a second formal night and enjoyed a wonderful dinner. You should have seen the production of trying to get all of us to cooperate for a photo! Somehow during dinner the story spread that Steve & Karen and Ed had been booted out of Michael's...
Awesome Wildlife of Icy Strait
It was a wonderfully exciting day in Hoonah, Alaska. Despite the rain, we saw lots of wildlife both marine and aerial from the whale watching boat. Loved the hospitality of the local people as they shared a little of their culture with us. At the Wild Alaska Cooking...
Juneau
Another day of breathtaking scenery! We embarked on an excursion in the company of Ed and Anita and saw Glacier Gardens, some incredible gardens crafted in what had been a mudslide area. From flowers planted in the roots of upside down trees to...
Skagway
Spent the day in Skagway. It was a wonderful adventure to ride the White Pass & Yukon train with John & Amy. We saw fabulous scenery and the some of the treacherous trail that the Klondike Gold Rushers faced. In town we visited some Klondike Gold Rush...
Icebergs Crashing Off Hubbard Glacier
Glacier Watching from a Cruise Ship Day at Sea but with unbelievable scenery. We started the day with a talk by the naturalist on board. Later we joined him in the icy rain up on deck to view Hubbard Glacier, the largest tidewater glacier on the North American...
Big Game Alaska Wildlife
Enjoyed a morning hike in the woods near Alyeska Resort. Other Moosecruisers spotted the bear in the woods. Our bus ride to Seward was interrupted by a visit to Big Game Alaska Wildlife Center. In the afternoon we boarded Celebrity Summit in Seward for the beginning...
Alyeska
Started the day with a stop by a stream hoping to see salmon run but we were a little too early in the season. Enjoyed a visit to the Alaska Native Heritage Center then back aboard the luxury motorcoach for the trip to Alyeeska Resort. A stop at the jade shop yielded...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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Wicked The Musical
Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
Caligula at Strawberry Hill
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.