Alaska 2002
Alaska With Our Grandsons; A True "Adventure"For All Of 'Us!
North To Alaska
So.... Grandma and Papa get this great idea.... Take the teenage
grandsons to Alaska before the "teenage insanity years" set in!
We asked, they said "Yes"... and we are off on a great adventure! June 10th, 2002 departure day!
Ok Jonathan and Zachary.. All YOU have to do is get 3.0 or better average on your grades! B's or better!
Jonathan is Colleen's son and Zachary belongs to Jeanette. The girls get two weeks off while the grandparents are on-duty!
We had no way to know what we were signing up to except
the boys are both good kids with Zachary being twelve and Jon thirteen.
Both are big boys who, until they opened their mouths, passed for much
older!
North
to Alaska is a 1960 comedic western directed by Henry Hathaway and starring John
Wayne and Stewart Granger.
What Are We Getting Into?
But first.... what are we getting into? Do we know what we are doing?- Let's look at the weather?
- Satellite Look!
- Details in Fairbanks
- Fairbanks Weather History
- Anchorage Weather History
We Have A Full Itinerary; Almost Two Weeks!
- Fly to Fairbanks
- Train through Denali and Talkeetna - 356-mile journey you'll see lush farmlands, homesteaders' cabins, bush airstrips, and moose grazing in willow thickets. Weather permitting, several vantage points offer unobstructed views of majestic Mt. McKinley as well.
- Stay the evening in Anchorage - At a nice hotel and get ready to rise and shine for the trip to the ship! We catch the Princess.
- On The Ship In Seward
- Day 1 - Prince Williams Sound
- Day 2 - Glacier Bay
- Day 4 - Juneau
- At The Tacu Lodge
- Day 5 - Ketchikan
- Day 6 - Inside Passage
- Victoria
Anchorage Alaska in June! Anchorage, Alaska is a consolidated city-borough
(officially called the Municipality of Anchorage) in the U.S. state of Alaska.
It is the largest city in the state of Alaska, with 278,700 residents,
comprising more than two-fifths (with its metropolitan area[1], over 50%) of the
state's total population.