Another picture of the shrine

Stuning

At the Shrine to Saint Teresa in Juneau.

Alaska State Museum, Juneau

Best 5 bucks I ever spent.

Juneau

This is the view from the balcony in our hotel room.  Small boat harbor in Juneau. In cased you were wondering, there is at least a 10 year waiting list for a slip.

Leaving Skagway

We have spent the day doing a few last minute things and saying good bye to all our new friends.  We took a train ride and we took a tour of a gold rush era brothel.  Then we said goodbye to Cindy in the book store, Rain and Peter in the Ranger station and Jordan, my favorite bar tender who makes the BEST long island ice tea!
Farewell Skaway!  See you soon!

My favorite shop in Skagway

Train ride

We are taking a train ride from Skagway to Lake Bennett in British Columbia (or maybe Yukon territory). Good times.

More Haines

Haines Alaska

This is a view of the mountains across the Lynn Canal with the small boat harbor in the foregrouind.

Ashley in The Days of 98 Show!

Snow!

We woke up to new snow this morning!

Mendenhall Glacier!

Ranger Ashley giving us a tour

Federal agent with a license to kill.
Mosquitos.

After a long day of travel on Saturday, we spent the night in Juneau and flew to Skagway on Sunday morning. We arrived in Skagway about 9:30 and Ashley and Stimee ran out to meet us on the tarmac! It was so great to hug my girl!! We met Stimee and it was like we have always known him. He is a nice person and he knows everything about Skagway and he knows everONE in Skagway! Our luggage made it to Skagway but our backpacks didn't. We ended up getting them later on Sunday. I was worried because my computer, cameras, kindles, and other assorted gadgetry were in our backpacks. Turned out they were marked "Haines" instead of "Skagway". Like Stimee says, "No drama".
Sunday we went on a driving tour of Skagway and Dyea. I had almost forgotten how beautiful it is here.
Yesterday we hung out in Skagway. We saw Ashley's talk on the routes to the gold rush and we participated in her walking tour. That was fund. Of course the highlight of the day was when I locked Ashleys' keys in her car. No drama. Stimee just broke into her car and got them out. Now I understand why Ashley calls him McGiver.
More later....gotta run.

Stimee

Stimee having fun on a little bike.  Captions?  I don't know how to write the mosquito sound!

Milestone

Tonight I pepared dinner in my daughter's kitchen. Too weird.

Ashley and Stimee in uniform

I'm on top of the world!

To Skagway!!

Native art

Team PaulC Raven in Juneau.  48 degres this morning!

Juneau!

It's cold!

Dulles

Welcome to Dulles.  Too bad we had to go south before going west. Looking forward to the 6 hour flight to Seattle. NOT|

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Ready to Go

Here we go again! We leave for Alaska on Saturday, June 5, 2010 and we will be in Skagway until Friday, June 18. We have lots of plans for hikes and excursions and I plan on posting photos and narrative as often as possible. Hopefully almost every day.