By Dan From the time we left our house on August 3, until the time we get home on August 24, we will have used a multitude of forms of transportation (in addition to walking). Here’s a list of sorts: Various forms of automobile drivers (other than ourselves): Taxi Lyft Other car services of various …
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Post #21: Haines to Juneau to Sitka (Aug 22-23)
Just to catch things up, this is being written in the evening of 8/23. We took a seaplane from Haines to Juneau on 8/22 (where we stayed overnight and reconnected with some of our luggage, which we’d left there – intentionally – while in Haines). In Juneau, we had a delightful lunch with Shelagh, the …
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Post #20: Haines and Klukwan
By Nina Roughly forty years ago, I had the delightful and fascinating experience of working in Juneau on a training session for Native Alaskan tribal advocates. One of the subjects they requested was information on what to do when someone stole tribal artifacts. This was not part of our regular program, but we found someone …
Post #19: Haines Hospice and “Hammer Museum”
By Dan As noted in the last post, we arrived in Haines on the morning of 8/20. Through our Servas connection (see Nina’s Haines/Klukwan post, which reveals the reason for this whole escapade), we’d gotten connected with folks from the all-volunteer Hospice of Haines, and arranged to meet with them, since Dan is so involved …
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Post #18: Homer to Juneau to Haines – an Alaska Experience (August 18-20)
by Dan We left Homer the morning of 8/18, intending to drive back to Anchorage for a flight that evening to Juneau (and then go on to Haines). But halfway to Anchorage, the traffic was at a complete standstill. There was no official information, but cars were turning around and heading the other way. A …
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Post #17: Homer (August 16-18)
by Nina (Note: The next group of posts, #17-20, were written August 22-23, and published August 23 from Sitka.) Our next destination, after Denali, was Homer, where our son-in-law Charley’s sister lives with her family. Our visit coincided with the last night of our daughter Becky and family’s visit. Homer is a fishing town (it …
Post #16: Berkeley Fendels Totem – Inspired by our visit to Saxman Village
From Joe (Yossi): We learned about Tlingit culture in Saxman Village. Part of this culture is a reluctance to write down stories – or anything else for that matter, relying instead on faithful oral transmission. The only permanent markers of communication they produce are the totem poles, which serve more as illustrations than as records. …
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Post #15: Glacier Bay, August 9
From Nina: Seeing Glacier Bay is a moving and profound experience. As you sail in, there is a glacier (I think it’s the Pacific Crest Glacier) with a massive ice cave right in the front. Different glaciers look really different. One is called Johns Hopkins glacier, by an explorer who went to school there. The …
Post #14: Skagway Part 2
From Nina: In the afternoon of Aug 8, we visited a camp for raising and training sled dogs for races like the 1000-mile Iditerod. We all got a ride in sleds (on wheels), pulled by the dogs, and then got to hold puppies. From Dan: The ride with the dogs was amazing. The mushers (people …
Post #13: Skagway, part 1
LIARSVILLE Port of call #3 was Skagway, where we spent the day of August 8. Our group went by bus to a “town” called Liarsville: where we had a salmon bake lunch, watched a vaudeville-like show, and then panned for gold. PANNING FOR GOLD By MERRILL, age 12 One fun thing we did was gold …
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