Destinations/Ports Series: 2021 Alaska Cruise Ketchikan, Alaska, with its 17K population, is the 4th largest city in Alaska. Alaska is a sparsely populated state with lots of open space and wildlife that area some of the state’s biggest attractions. With Steve and I having visited 3 times previously (plus an extra one for me), we…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2021 Alaska Cruise Wow, well I know this expression is cliché but, Wow! I have been on 35 other cruises, and while those cruises were excellent, Silversea just takes every thing one step further. First the embarkation process was smooth and easy. We estimated that it might take 40 minutes to get from…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2018 Alaska Cruise Victoria is a quaint port that I had visited on several occasions when cruising from Seattle to Alaska. The Passenger Service Vessel Act requires ships that are not US flagged and crewed, to visit a foreign port when doing a roundtrip cruise from a US port. For cruises from Seattle,…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2018 Alaska Cruise This day turned out to be a pleasant surprise for us. Our group had originally booked the White Pass and Yukon train tour that goes up along the pass from Skagway into the Yukon territory. I had done that train ride during my previous visit to Skagway in 2008. However…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2018 Alaska Cruise This was also my 4th time to visit Juneau, so we did a little bit of the old and a little bit of the new. In 2008, my son and I visited the old Alaska State Museum. When we came in 2015, the museum was under renovation. What a renovation…
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