Our ferry journeys from Valdez to Cordova and Cordova to Whittier are going to be very fun sightseeing adventures in themselves! The photo above is of our particular ferry, M/V Chenega. Click here to see a video of the amenities aboard the Alaska Marine Highway system vessels. More on this transportation system can be found at www.ferryalaska.com.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Our ferry, MV Chenega
Our ferry journeys from Valdez to Cordova and Cordova to Whittier are going to be very fun sightseeing adventures in themselves! The photo above is of our particular ferry, M/V Chenega. Click here to see a video of the amenities aboard the Alaska Marine Highway system vessels. More on this transportation system can be found at www.ferryalaska.com.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Alaska B4-U-DIE
Interesting marketing tactic, alright. This is actually not an uncommon logo for Alaska tourism!From this site, you can request your own travel planner - www.alaskaB4Udie.com
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Sarah Palin Interview
Here is the Saturday Night Live video to which Dane is referring - a parody on the Sarah Palin / Katie Couric interview last September. Quite hilarious!!
Friday, July 3, 2009
WE WILL SEE RUSSIA FROM HER HOUSE
We'll be in and out of Wasilla a couple times and the little town is shaping up this summer as something of a national political hotspot. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, resident and ex-mayor of Wasilla, announced today that she is resigning as governor. See NYTimes story here: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/palin-to-resign-as-governor-of-alaska/?partner=rss&emc=rss
Speculation is running wild as to exactly why, but it appears she wants the freedom to be able to run for president. So as a 30-year ex-political reporter (mostly with the Star Tribune in Minneapolis but also the St. Paul Pioneer Press) I will try to get us as close to this story as possible. An old colleague of mine was her press guy at the state capitol. At the very least, we ought to be able to see some media types hanging around and maybe we can find time to drive by her place and knock on her door. I'll tell you all about why she has that Minnesota accent, made unforgettable in the movie "Fargo'', even though she was born in Idaho. If you want to review the funniest thing ever, YouTube should still have Tina Fey's Saturday Night Live send-up of Sarah during the last campaign, in which she talked about seeing Russia from her house. Sarah actually said something to that effect in her infamous interviews. Russia of course is only about 700 miles as the crow flies to the northwest of Wasilla and in Alaska we will see vestiges of the early Russian colonization at places along the way, especially in Kenai.
Dane
Speculation is running wild as to exactly why, but it appears she wants the freedom to be able to run for president. So as a 30-year ex-political reporter (mostly with the Star Tribune in Minneapolis but also the St. Paul Pioneer Press) I will try to get us as close to this story as possible. An old colleague of mine was her press guy at the state capitol. At the very least, we ought to be able to see some media types hanging around and maybe we can find time to drive by her place and knock on her door. I'll tell you all about why she has that Minnesota accent, made unforgettable in the movie "Fargo'', even though she was born in Idaho. If you want to review the funniest thing ever, YouTube should still have Tina Fey's Saturday Night Live send-up of Sarah during the last campaign, in which she talked about seeing Russia from her house. Sarah actually said something to that effect in her infamous interviews. Russia of course is only about 700 miles as the crow flies to the northwest of Wasilla and in Alaska we will see vestiges of the early Russian colonization at places along the way, especially in Kenai.
Dane
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Our Cyber-Alaska Journey!
Here is our future in present cyberspace - our route on Google maps. Have fun with this: there are many details about each leg of our journey, you can zoom in and out, view the map via satellite and terrain, and more! You can do all this directly on our blog page, or click on the link to view a larger map with which to play on Google/maps.
View Alaska 2009 in a larger map
Another means of getting to our Google Alaska voyage is to click on this link.
View Alaska 2009 in a larger map
Another means of getting to our Google Alaska voyage is to click on this link.
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