Well, here goes……………..we hope we don’t hurt anyone’s feelings by giving our honest opinion about this trip, especially our travelling companions. Stephanie and I have been discussing this trip frequently over the past few weeks since we returned home. We have been trying to look at the trip from different perspectives to make sure that our last assessment is accurate and truly expresses the way we thought this trip went.…
As is typical for all of our trips, we generally add a few tidbits of information to the blog after we get home, generally some status updates on the blog completion, general impressions of the trip after we have been home and thought about it, and some general cost information, and we do that in the Epilogue. I have been adding pictures to all of the blog post themselves, and…
Our friends Ashley and Bryan traveled to Alaska in 2021, and had a great trip. We visited with them and looked at their beautiful pictures and discussed what a great time they had on that trip and the next thing we knew, we were all planning to go to Alaska in July, 2023. Since Ashley had done all of the planning for that previous trip, and I know nothing about…
The Itinerary for our 15 day trip to Alaska in July, 2023
Below is a link to a shared Google Map of the places we will visit on our Alaska Trip. Trip Map
Here is a listing of accommodations where we are staying on our Alaska Trip. Note that due to size limitations, we are not staying in the same place in Seldovia. Ashley and Bryan are letting us enjoy the Asta Suite, where they stayed on their last trip to Alaska. It has a large deck that we will all enjoy during the day, but only has room for two people to…
We have been monitoring the airfare prices using Google Flights and waiting until we were within the 330 day window for the end of our trip before we could purchase any round trip airfare. I had done some investigation on the possibility of purchasing one-way tickets for each trip, going out to Alaska and returning home. In the not so distance past, purchasing one-way tickets was cost prohibitive, you were…
Today, we went ahead and purchased our one-way return airfare from Anchorage to Columbia. We had been monitoring the pricing on Google Flights, hoping that the fares would go down as low as the $277 per person fares we had seen for most Saturdays in June. However, most of the fares for July have settled in at $357 per per person as the lowest priced fare for almost every day…
We have not been doing much for this trip, there is not really a lot to do since all of the locations we are visiting and accommodations at each location have already been booked. We have had to deal with two flight changes since the last update. Thank you American Airlines. Both changes have been with our flights to Anchorage on July 1, 2023. The first change was due to…
We are just about three weeks away from our departure on July 1, 2023. We would like to be excited, but once again, we are dealing with health issues for our aging mom’s, specifically Stephanie’s mom at the present time. She is once again in the hospital, and is not recovering as well as she did on the past several hospital stays. In fact, she will most likely be going…
We are scheduled to leave two weeks from today for our Alaska Adventure. Unfortunately, we are still not 100% sure we will be going at all due to Stephanie’s mom’s health. We hope to have a better idea in a few days, but as of today, we are probably sitting around 50/50 on a go/no go decision. Stephanie’s mom has been discharged from the hospital and is now a rehab…
Things are starting to look more positive for our being able to go on this trip. Stephanie’s mom is doing well, thank goodness, and we are starting to feel better about leaving. Things could still happen to derail this trip at the last minute, but for now, we are set to go. We started a little packing last night, well more like we set some things out, mostly cooler weather…
North To Alaska is an older John Wayne movie that I have always liked, and it seemed appropriate as the title for the first post for this trip, we are finally on our way. We got everything packed and weighed last night and both suitcases were about 48 pounds, a good number for us based on all of the extra items we packed to take with us specific to this…
We felt like we were able to sleep in a little, but in reality, we were both up at about 6:00 AM on the new Alaska time. However, we were able to get about 7 hours of sleep, so it was not that bad. We got up and got ready, and made a plan for the morning with Ashley and Bryan. We had purchased a strawberry/cheese Danish from Walmart yesterday…
I was able to sleep in until about 5:30 AM, which sounds early, but since we went to sleep around 9:30 PM last night, that was more than enough sleep for the night. I got up and made coffee while Stephanie slept in a bit longer. It was nice that there was ground coffee and filters provided on our Cabin to use in the coffee maker I worked on the…
HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!!!! I woke up this morning about 6:00 AM, feeling that I had slept in about as long as I was going to be able to do today. Of course, the sun was up, but it was cloudy, and not that bright outside. I made some coffee and worked on the blog, and was able to catch up to today’s post. Today, we are going to the…
Today, we head to the Between Beaches Resort, which is a group of cabins that can be rented. It is located on MacDonald Spit, and is only about seven miles from Seldovia. We are each renting separate cabins, we are in the cabin named The Fishermen’s Cabin and Ashley and Bryan are in a cabin next door called The Cannery Cabin. Our plan for today was to get up and…
We slept pretty good last night considering we are in a full size bed, and it takes a little time to get used to that since we are normally sleeping in a king size bed at home. We had plenty of covers to keep warm, even without running the propane space heater during the night. It did rain really hard last night and we could hear the rain beating on…
I was able to sleep in a little longer this morning, probably because we went to bed so late. It was cloudy again this morning, but at least it was not raining. I made coffee and did my usual blog work to complete yesterday’s post while Stephanie slept in. My shin was a little sore from my firewood splitting incident yesterday, but not swollen. We got a text from Ashley…
We woke up this morning at about 6:30 AM. We needed to be out of the cabin and have our luggage out on the beach by 7:50 AM to meet Nate so he could take us back to Seldovia to catch the 9:00 AM Ferry to Homer. It was a sunny morning, the first sunny morning we have had on the trip so far. Too bad we were having to…
Stephanie and I woke up to the alarm at 7:15 AM, which was actually sleeping in a bit compared to the last few mornings. We got ready upstairs for our tour boat excursion called the 7.5 Hour Kenai Fjords National Park Cruise through Major Marine Tours, and went downstairs to get some coffee and bagels for breakfast. Here is a link to the Major Marine Tour Website showing all of…
There will not be much to post for today, we really did not do much of anything. It rained fairly hard all day except for a couple of hours in the early evening around 5:00 PM. Ashley and Bryan spent most of the day isolating in their room downstairs, and Stephanie and I wore our masks while sitting in the kitchen table area for most of the day. After lunch,…
Well, I guess it was just a matter of time, I had not felt that great yesterday, but this morning, I woke up feeling really bad and I took my temperature and it was 100.3 degrees, obviously, not good. I felt like I slept well, but it was a little on the restless side. I had taken some Tylenol before I went to bed last night, just for precaution, and…
I slept pretty good last night in the twin bed. At times I was hot and sweating and at other times I was cold and bundling up under the covers. I got up and took some more Tylenol at about 1:30 AM, and that helped. I was also drinking a lot of water to stay hydrated, so that makes for extra trips to the bathroom at night. I got up…
This morning was the best weather morning of the entire trip. There was not a cloud in the sky, which is a little ironic, but I will get into that later. I tossed and turned all night, getting up several times for the bathroom and to also drink a large glass of water to keep from getting dehydrated from sweating with my fever. I had slept under several layers, just…
Today we head to Anchorage for our last night in Alaska before flying home. I slept better last night and finally woke up without having any fever, but I had taken some Tylenol during the night, and I was not sure if it was because of that or that I finally was done with the fever from my COVID. I certainly felt better, and had a little more energy. We…
The alarm went off at 5:00 AM, as scheduled, and it was time to get up for our long travel day home, around 14 hours total if all goes well. We got up and started getting ready. I took the last rapid test for COVID we had, the second one of the two we had brought from home. It did not take it long for it to show I was…