Alaska Adventure

 Mexican Riviera Cruse One of the benefits of working for Holland America Princess Cruises is reduced price trips each year. In March Laura and I went on our first cruise--a 12 day cruise to the Mexican Riviera. We had a great time and got to detox from internet access. The following is from the log I kept of the journey. Zaandam docked in San Diego Cruise Day 0: Friday.  Traveled from Fredonia to California. Along the way we met Kailab in St George for lunch and took him to Walmart where he picked up his Starlink so he can get WiFi in his Big Rig on trips across the country. We stayed the night in a Highland AirB&B with gawdy colors and a beach motif.    Day 1 : Saturday.  San Diego:  Went to Redlands temple for 8:30 session.  Redland Temple Our room on board Deserts so many deserts Traveled to San Diego through crowded traffic. Boarded the Zaandam at 2:30pm, unpacked, ate lunch (sandwich, fruit, dessert) Toured the whole ship (a small 1423 pas...

  Before Laura and I left Alaska, we went on an excursion into Denali park. We saw two big bull moose, a dozen mountain goats, several herds of caribou, a momma brown bear and two big cubs, plus ptarmigan and other wildlife. Our guide even gave a five minute dissertation on a fresh pile of purple bear scat we stopped by on the rode.  It was a fun outing and a break from all the driving. Big bull middle tree line Changing Colors A couple of moose Muskox 

Family Fishing Trip Alaska 2024 The highlight of my summer in Alaska was when the whole family came up to Juneau for a fishing trip. After flying in we took the ferry out to Hoonah and fished for three day with one extra day for sight seeing. On the way out we saw several humpback whales and other marine life. We caught 21 halibut, one cod, and came home with 150lbs of fish filets. Everyone who dared got to shell their own Dungeness crab. We also saw a brown bear in one of the streams there. Back in Juneau we visited Mendenhall Glacier and DIPAC fish hatchery where we watched the salmon climb up the ladders into the holding tanks. It was a blast. The boys enjoy the three hour ferry ride "Bet I could jump over to that." "Bet you can't" After reeling this halibut up from  300 ft, Elidan is excited Delina is ecstatic to have caught the only cod These are a little scrawny but I guess we will keep them                     ...

The Yukon Flats cover over 8 million acres and contains over 40, 000 lakes.