i don't know what day it is!
i have spent 20 of the last 36 hours in airports/planes, but i'm back from the great white north.
i have to say, at the risk of sounding corny, alaska is the most breathtakingly beautiful sight i have ever seen in my life. [i'll omit the tourist traps that are the ports] i have 2,000 pictures of the mountains because at every new angle, it just seemed i needed to capture them. albeit, we had unreasonably fabulous weather [70 degrees + sunshine when it's normally 50 + rain this time of year], but man. it exceeded my expectations by far. cruise ships, though? i think that might be a vacation vessel i will avoid in the future. i mean, it was NICE and there was food + entertainment everywhere, and the staff was exceptionally friendly, ... however, by about wednesday i had had enough, it's just really not my style. i am annoyed at the masses far too easily to be on a boat with thousands of them for a week straight. that being said, it was still an awesome vacation and well worth all the money. if i were every going to disappear, it would absolutely be the place in which i'd choose to disappear.
+'s [that i saw]
mountains that put ours to shame! [helicoptering over them!]
glaciers! [helicoptering over them, too!]
ice fields!
rain forests! [i know, in alaska... well, they're temperate rain forests]
waterfalls!
a hundred billion bald eagles!
whales and porpoises and orcas!
bears [well, i saw one, and it wasn't an asshole polar bear]
friendliest population i've ever encountered and pittsburgh is a NICE city!
pretty much light out any time you would use for the sun. [probably not as cool when it's the reverse]
MUSK OX STORE in anchorage. the guy there loved musk ox even more than me and pretty much knew everything about them. i have a musk ox hat now. !!!!
DOG SLEDDING ON A GLACIER
drinking canadian rocky mountain glacier water. [don't worry, i didn't get dysentary (sp)]
-'s
i decided to read INTO THE WILD [i'd already seen the movie] while i was there and it made me feel like a giant lame for experiencing alaska on a luxury cruise ship. then again, i have the outdoorsmanship of a gabor sister, unfortunately.
on that note, the ports of call really just being big strip malls for tourist shopping which made me hate my life. the ports of call where i just got to be outside and take it in were the ones i liked best. the first one we docked at, ketchikan, i just walked around by myself out of the downtown area and up a trail and it was my favorite time other than dogsledding/helicopter].
pretty much just being stuck on boat with a bunch of lames [that, and being waited on hand and food actually makes me really uncomfortable] [[that being said, our waitress at dinner, NORMA, was the most adorable public servant i ever encountered. she even remembered what kind of champagne glasses we preferred. our peruvian princess]]
uh, i guess that's it.
i have to say, at the risk of sounding corny, alaska is the most breathtakingly beautiful sight i have ever seen in my life. [i'll omit the tourist traps that are the ports] i have 2,000 pictures of the mountains because at every new angle, it just seemed i needed to capture them. albeit, we had unreasonably fabulous weather [70 degrees + sunshine when it's normally 50 + rain this time of year], but man. it exceeded my expectations by far. cruise ships, though? i think that might be a vacation vessel i will avoid in the future. i mean, it was NICE and there was food + entertainment everywhere, and the staff was exceptionally friendly, ... however, by about wednesday i had had enough, it's just really not my style. i am annoyed at the masses far too easily to be on a boat with thousands of them for a week straight. that being said, it was still an awesome vacation and well worth all the money. if i were every going to disappear, it would absolutely be the place in which i'd choose to disappear.
+'s [that i saw]
mountains that put ours to shame! [helicoptering over them!]
glaciers! [helicoptering over them, too!]
ice fields!
rain forests! [i know, in alaska... well, they're temperate rain forests]
waterfalls!
a hundred billion bald eagles!
whales and porpoises and orcas!
bears [well, i saw one, and it wasn't an asshole polar bear]
friendliest population i've ever encountered and pittsburgh is a NICE city!
pretty much light out any time you would use for the sun. [probably not as cool when it's the reverse]
MUSK OX STORE in anchorage. the guy there loved musk ox even more than me and pretty much knew everything about them. i have a musk ox hat now. !!!!
DOG SLEDDING ON A GLACIER
drinking canadian rocky mountain glacier water. [don't worry, i didn't get dysentary (sp)]
-'s
i decided to read INTO THE WILD [i'd already seen the movie] while i was there and it made me feel like a giant lame for experiencing alaska on a luxury cruise ship. then again, i have the outdoorsmanship of a gabor sister, unfortunately.
on that note, the ports of call really just being big strip malls for tourist shopping which made me hate my life. the ports of call where i just got to be outside and take it in were the ones i liked best. the first one we docked at, ketchikan, i just walked around by myself out of the downtown area and up a trail and it was my favorite time other than dogsledding/helicopter].
pretty much just being stuck on boat with a bunch of lames [that, and being waited on hand and food actually makes me really uncomfortable] [[that being said, our waitress at dinner, NORMA, was the most adorable public servant i ever encountered. she even remembered what kind of champagne glasses we preferred. our peruvian princess]]
uh, i guess that's it.