A 3 Week UnCruise Adventure
Monday morning was an early start. It had rained off and on yesterday, but it was just cloudy this morning. Transportation was not an issue today, the Resort Busses were ready to take us to the Train Depot. If you've not been to Alaska, you might be asking, "Another Travel Day?" This wasn't just any …
Everyone back on the bus, we moved out and soon came upon more caribou: Kirsty stopped the bus and pointed up on the hill - how did she spot this guy? It was a Cross Fox, meaning it is a mix of red and black. He's an evil looking little …
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There are several activities to choose from at Kantishna Roadhouse; you can do a guided hike, flyfish for grayling, or pan for gold. I'd already taken care of our plans for the morning, having reserved a flight seeing tour of Mt. McKinley with Kantishna Air Taxi. Given the weather on arrival day, this was iffy. …
We missed the 5am wake up call to catch the bus back to the Train Depot!!! No worries, Lou had booked us on a flight from Kantishna to the park entrance when he stepped into the Kantishna Air office the day before and we weren't leaving until 8am. No long bus ride for him today. …
We saw some of our travel mates, and they said they'd seen five bears on the bus trip this morning! I was happy for them, but not disappointed because our flight was spectacular. We had a short wait to board the train: Here it comes !!! Locomotive No. 4326. We climbed up …
We were picked up at 7am by a nice young lady from Rust's Flying Service. We knew we wanted to increase the odds of seeing bears on this trip, so we booked a fly in - fly out tour at the Lodge on Redoubt Bay. This wasn't the best time of year to see bears, …
We caught the 4am Hotel Shuttle to the Anchorage airport. We checked in for our 6:05 flight. Everything went smoothly with our travel today. We flew from Anchorage to Minneapolis/St. Paul to Detroit to Bangor, Maine. We arrived in Bangor close to midnight - tired, but happy to be home. We stayed at the Sheraton …