Our Last Day in Alaska

Okay. Cheers, babe. Last night in Alaska. Six weeks. I think we did Alaska just right. Yeah, I would agree. I think to do Alaska this way you have to have a course, a lot of spare time, the funds to be able to travel and do the adventures. The adventures are very expensive. If you figured it out then you have to be really healthy because if you're not able to use your two legs to get places. Yeah. So what were your favorite things? I definitely love seeing the nature both the plant life and especially the animal life. We were fortunate to be able to take some excursions in our boat. We saw bears in the wild. They were fishing for salmon. That was tremendous. We saw bears and moose along the road. Absolutely enchanted with just so clean and pristine there. So you have to kind of adjust when you come back to the U.S. But then you get readjusted to the U.S. and then it's just this marvelous wild frontier land with a lot of history. The native history. Victor sorry but that's kind of what impressed me is the history. So what were your highlights? So I thought that Denali was breathtaking. It was so gorgeous. And we were so lucky to get a clear day and do the plane flight around Denali. And if you haven't seen it, the whole plane flight was recorded. It's on YouTube. Look for Breakaway Adventures and you'll be able to watch it. But all of the little fishing villages and seaports Saldatna Homer Seward Valdez was beautiful. Here we are in Skagway and it's equally beautiful and just so rich in the Klondike Whirlbrush history. History again? Yeah. Well, I mean one of the things that really excited you was to be able to go out salmon fishing. Yeah. That was really a big part. Oh, halibut fishing, yeah. I mean those were those were things that were just objectives of this trip. I wanted to go salmon fishing and have a salmon dinner that was caught that day. And likewise I wanted to go halibut fishing and have a halibut dinner that was caught. And we got to do both. Salmon and halibut. Yeah. Prepared different ways by Chef Adrian. Yeah. And you are eating fresh stuff wherever you are and just hunkering down in the places where there's really not much. Girdwood was a pretty cool place. Why was Girdwood so fantastic? Because Toby made arrangements for us to have a spa day at Girdwood. The Alieska Resort, which is probably about the most high-end place you can go to here in Alaska. We just got to go to their hydrotherapy area. So this whole outdoor area that had hot pools, cold pools, steam rooms, saunas. An exfoliation room. Yeah. And then their Nordic massage. That's what I'm saying. We paid for it. Toby paid for it. It was great. Thank you, Toby. And then there was a tram ride that you could take up the Alieska Peak. Yeah, the peak there. Snow on the ground. So, what else? We got to go on a glacier and wildlife cruise, Valdez. Oh yeah, with Captain Fred. What a character. This guy has been doing these trips with non-stop narration of stories about the area. So it's eight hours, so it's not short, but he brings you with his boat that can go through the ice and get you a quarter mile away from the resort. And there were parts of the Columbia Glacier that were so deep blue and that's caused by it's called ancient ice and it's so old and it's been so compacted that it just is a it's almost like ink. It's beautiful. We got to go on a cruise of Seward as well, right? And that took us to a different glacier, I can't remember what the name of it was. Yeah, but we were also in the Kenai Fjords. And then you could hike in this. The cruise in the Kenai Fjords, we came across a pod of humpback whales that were bubble feeding. So, they swim around, they blow a bunch of bubbles, it birds a school of fish into the center of the bubbles and then the whales all come up together and have lunch. And it's just wild to watch all of them pop up out of the water at the same time. That was pretty cool. And then there was orcas, which were really cool. They didn't jump out of the water, which it would have been easier to get a picture of, but there's the fact that they have their dorsal fins and you can see the white marbled puffins are the cutest birds. We went to an aquarium, which helped you really see what the sea life is like. Kayaking, hot springs. Yeah, we've done a lot of hot springs. A lot of different experiences. Definitely know which things were the best. So, if you come back, what things would you do that we haven't done this time? I think it's a matter of visiting places that we couldn't get to because it didn't fit our schedule. It would be nice to go up to the Arctic Circle and see some more of very hard to get to, so it's usually by plane or boat. I'd like to go up to Dodson City the other end of, but you know Alaska is such a big state and you would just have to break it up into different trips. Yeah. I think the other thing that I would like to do is to be able to see Kodiak Island. Yeah. I think it would be really great to see those islands. Yeah, some of the Aleutian Islands. Right. You know, it would be fun to, we've been listening to James Michener's Alaska on the way up here and it talks about the history of Alaska and you know, the natives the Aleuts that lived on the Aleutian Islands and with their volcanoes. It just would be incredible to go see that. With fishing and contestant lives and the rest of the world. Don't get me started on that. So, you know, I think we have a little bit of laundry to do tonight. That's part of the trip. I mean, there are things that we learned on this trip. One of them being that you've got to be a pretty good mechanic to repair stuff on the road because there's been a lot of breakdowns. We've had flat tires. We've had airbags that wouldn't inflate. We've had lines fall off the wall. We've had a toilet that wouldn't hold water. There's just been all kinds of stuff. Somebody could fix it all. Well, I mean, I think we were fortunate that way. I learned a lot on this trip about do-it-yourself mechanics. I learned a lot about making reservations kind of on the fly. Yeah, very little of this trip was pre-booked. Yeah, we had to book everything that was going to be popular. That's amazing. I think one of the things that's done for us is it's allowed us to be pretty flexible. When we find someplace that we want to be, we can always stay an extra day or two because we know that we can take something else off the list and just not go there. So we've done a fair amount of that. Hello there, buddy. Okay, well, I think it's a wrap for now. Yeah, so we're going to be tomorrow. We're going to take off and we're going to head to Watson Lake, which we stayed at. That's where the Stein Forest is. And then we're going to be heading down the Cassiar Highway through British Columbia. And I'm really looking forward to that. We still have a month left to go, so there's lots more adventures to be had here. But this is our last night in Alaska, and it just has been so happy that we actually did this trip. Yeah, it is. It's been gorgeous. So, alright. Catch y'all later. Did I tell you about losing the drone today? That was heartbreaking. I don't know what happened, but it just decided to go off on its own. It might have something to do with the cruise ships and the helicopters and the airport. It might.