Bucket lists are an interesting quandary, they are filled with expectations and dreams. But, can anything live up to the a dream? I watched Fellowship of the Ring this weekend and am reminded about what happens when you step out your door. You change, you grow, you hopefully become more and not less than you…
Month: September 2012
Alaska – 09-15-2012
The morning arrives and time for breakfast and to leave the ship. I will not miss my time aboard nor will I look back at it with nostalgia. However, I was where I needed to be at that place and time. I met people, I touched people and people touched me back. I became more…
Alaska – 09-14-2012
Sitting in the lounge drinking water and live as I catch up on photo editing. Last night we moved down to the Misty Fjords where the sheer granite walls with the trees clinging to the crevices have mists streaming through them. The sun and the blue sky is barely peeking through to add interest to…
Alaska – 09-13-2012 – Alaskan Adventures
There comes a time when you just need to admit that a trip is cursed, I am officially at that point. Yesterday was spent travelling up the narrows to Wrangell where the flightseeing and fishing were cancelled as the weather was atrocious and the rivers were running too hard to fish in. I wanted some…
Alaska – 09-11-2012 – Alaskan Adventures and mischievous otter people.
Alaska was meant to be the small trip of the two this year. Ireland the larger one. However, as I was putting together the itineraries more and more time was devoted to the Alaskan itinerary over the Ireland one. I believe this was due to the fact I wanted to focus Ireland on the dream…
Alaska – 09-10-2012 – Day 3 – Alaskan Adventure
What a wonderful day today, I woke up and had an excellent morning of yoga with Chella. The captain Danno even joined us for the morning stretch. I can’t use enough flowery overly gratuitous words to properly cover the wonder of doing yoga outside in 40 degree weather with the mists shrouding the mountains and…
Alaska – 09-09-2012 – Day 1 and 2 on the boat
We left Juneau yesterday and motored down to Tracy Arms Fjord overnight. Juneau was an interesting city, a state capitol of 30k people. However, it is a cruise ship tourist city with 30+ jewelry stores all owned by the cruise ships. An amazingly beautiful area when you get away from the city. I visited the…
Alaska – 09-08-2012 – Alaskan Thoughts
Spent yesterday in Fairbanks, AK waiting on my flight/trip to the arctic circle. I had called in the morning to check that everything was set. They warned me on the phone that weather was not nice up at the arctic circle and they would call me if they were going to cancel the flight. Sadly,…
Alaska – 09-08-2012 – Alaska – Why is it so early?
I am on vacation and I just caught a 6am flight from Fairbanks to Juneau (stop in Anchorage). I woke up and the temperature was 32 degrees, we even had to de-ice the plane. The airport was a breeze, arrived at 5am, check-in, flew through security, and walked right onto the plane. Alaska Airlines is…
Alaska – 09-07-2012 – On Buffalo and Beer
My Arctic Circle flight has been cancelled due to weather conditions. So the trip to Fairbanks, AK needs to be salvaged in some way. The University of Alaska Museum has a sound room that takes the sounds.of the world and translates it to music. if the earth has seismic activity you hear a rumble and…