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…
2023 Alaska Trip Itinerary
The Itinerary for our 15 day trip to Alaska in July, 2023
Alaska 2023 Trip Map – July 20, 2023
Below is a link to a shared Google Map of the places we will visit on our Alaska Trip. Trip Map
List of Accommodations In Alaska – July 21, 2023
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…
Airfare Update – August 20, 2022
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…
Airfare Update 2 – August 29, 2022
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…
Planning Update – March 16, 2023
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…
Trip Update – June 7, 2023
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…
Two Weeks to Go, Well Maybe – June 18, 2023
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…
Five Days To Go – June 24, 2023
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…