Mt. McKinley and Denali National Park-Aug 27-29

We agreed the trip's highlight was seeing all of the tallest mountain in North America and we all took several pictures of the mountain and the park. I took a park ranger guided climb while my friends continued on their bus ride deeper into the park and closer to the Mt. This was a fabulous view and within sight of a feeding grizzly. (I will be posting on shutterfly 50 photos with captions soon, if you want them e-mailed to you put a comment below.

Skagway to Prince Rupert 430 miles

We are enjoying the Alaskan Ferry with a 3 bed state room with private hot water shower and bathroom. As Wayne said "yes, this is a pleasant surprise." Frank lost his LLBean weather predictor for a few days but that showed up today again registering temps 20 degrees too high. Ed took a Dramamine in case he got sea sickness and had to go to bed at 8 pm. Mr Dozy. We have seen porpoises along the ships side and many inlets and villages along the way. we are now in Ketchikan Alaska, a major port of call for the ships. Lots to look at and spend the 7 hours we have for stopover. We arrive at Prince Rupert BC at 6:15am and am planning on a motel as we then board the BC ferry very early before dawn. For those interested in celiac I'm eating ricecakes and peanut butter for lunches on the ferry. tonight going to a thai restauart in town

Up Close to a Glacier

Monday, August 31, we drove from Seward to Anchorage a short 150 miles. Just outside of Seward in Kenai National Park we hiked to Exit Glacier and stood at the edge of a beautiful and large ice mass. Glacier are defined as moving by gravitation pull. Above the glacier, higher up the mountain is Hardy icefield which to cross takes 6 days to hike and camp. We spotted a couple of Tundra swan, who seem to mate for life and migrate to Venezuela.

Last night we slept at Ft. Richardson BOQ and watched Monday Night Football. This is the signal we have left the Last Frontier, as Alaska is nicknamed, and are now driving east and south on a two day trip to Skagway and the Alaskan Ferry. It has been miles and smiles of fun and memories. Ed and Wayne continue to grow their beards. Wayne says Ed looks like a homeless man especially before he did his laundry here at the BOQ. All he needs is a shopping cart.