Tough week, but it is always one move at a time. Trying to keep from exposing the King to hostile action. Life can be a giant chess game. Is it Friday yet?
Here I am strolling down the pier one day, just enjoying the wonderful penguin weather. 
When we returned from the adventure train ride we explored the city. It was interesting with wood sidewalks and plenty of parking. Now where did we leave the ship?
One of the motivations for the trip was to ride the White Pass and Yukon Railroad from Skagway. What a wonderful ride. The train starts at sea level and climbs through the White Pass and on into Canada on a narrow gauge route built for the gold rush 100 years ago. It is one of the top 10 train trips in the world and very-very worth the ride. You can even stand out between the cars and watch the Yukon roll by.One of the best parts of aquatic flying is the landing. It was so smooth that dad could not have done a better job (RS you have got to go try this!)
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We took a nice areal tour in Juneau to see the glaciers and ice field. There are hundreds of miles of glaciers and ice fields, the vastness of the of the ice was amazing. The plane was older then DG, but had a major rebuild the winter before including a retrofit with a turbo prop engine. Wow! Worth every penny. 
Well this was a unique experience, the hotel put us in a renovated log cabin with a huge stone fireplace. But our first reaction was you have got to be kidding. The cabin was over the cliff and half way down the mountainside, see the roof top on the horizon, that is it. There were 63 steps from the parking area to the cabin door. Hauling luggage in the dark and rain, I really wished I could fly. 
I have been resting up for the past couple of weeks, just sort of drifting along. I am headed out to the western end of Kentucky on Sunday for a couple of days and then down to the south central part of the state, nearly to the Tennessee state line for a couple of days and will hence probably not post until Friday. I know you will all miss me, try not to cry to much, the water level seems to be rising, not fun unless you are a flightless fowl.
Parts of the panhandle of Alaska are in a major rain forest. Nice wet, green, not at all like home.
In every cruise port you seem to run into the same stores. Jewelers, how many people go off on vacation and think "let's buy expensive jewelry from people we have never met, in a place we could never get back to," and think this is a good idea. How much champagne do these people drink? There must be enough cruisers with bad judgements because there are the same gold, diamond and emerald outlets in every port. But there are also local shops, owned and operated by locals, stocking art and artifacts created by locals. You just have to get past the overpriced junk shops to get there. Then there was the Juneau branch of a furrier from Cleveland.