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  • Whatchamacallit Island. Here, so the story goes, banished miscreant natives were sent to contemplate their wrongdoing
  • Here's one now. Don't look at her
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  • On the streets of Skagway
  • In this episode, Indy takes on the evil Dr. Iditarod and his fiendishly clever machine, the Giant Nipple of the North.
  • "Pick me, pick me! I'm next!
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  • I'm guessing the top of the face of this glacier is more than 200 feet above the sea. Note the person standing on the deck of the boat, which is itself some distance from the glacier.
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  • A fellow traveler looking for room service
  • Oh, yeah, and dessert.
  • Yeah, I went to Alaska
  • We were sailing along in Glacier Bay.
  • Only whispy clouds above us
  • On a pristine day
  • One of the National Park Service rangers who came aboard.
  • Okay girls, our first glacier of the day
  • Customary shipboard glacier portrait.
  • A lone kayaker give some perspective to the size of the ice chunks floating by.
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  • Vulcan mind melding on the balcony can be fun.
  • Mary's "I went to Alaska" photo
  • To our friends, Bruce and Cindy: Thanks for inviting us to join you on this great adventure! It was sensational!!
  • Essential "we went to Alaska" portrait
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  • A glacier that is retreating from the water's edge
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  • While eating our back-up breakfast in the buffet, we spotted our sister ship heading south.
  • College Fiord, where all the glaciers are named after Ivy League and Seven Sisters schools.
  • Alaska
  • Port of Whittier at midnight.
  • Day 9: Off the ship at an ungodly hour to catch the train to Talkeetna.
  • Fortunately, the train was just a short, soggy, walk from the ship.
  • On board the train and striving to look perky.
  • We made a vain attempt at perky too. Early morning train in Alaska, 2009
  • Bye, bye, Island Princess
  • On our way to Talkeetna
  • The Cooke Inlet at low tide. They have the second greatest tidal height ebb and flow in the world.
  • On the train in Alaska, 2009
  • Perking up!
  • Moving inland
  • Before 2008, best known as mile 46 on the Iditarod Trail
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  • We appreciated this sign so we could differentiate historic from modern Talkeetna.
  • A delighful lunch at the Denali Brewing Co., Talkeetina
  • Denali Brewing Co. log walls are chinked with the finest grade of ground squirrel fur. No, not really...I don't think.
  • Refreshed, and off to discover new gift shops.
  • Flowers and spruce burls
  • Bruce contemplates the meaning of the Alaska state flag from the comfort of a gift shop's husband chair.
  • The background sign is there because on a clear day the mountain stands majestically behind it.
  • Mandatory Mt. McKinley Portrait. Use your imagination, we had to
  • One of dozens of lovely flower baskets that decorate the hotel grounds.
  • "Wary Interesting but stupid."
  • Tiptoe through the fireweed with me.
  • The Talkeetna River runs behind the hotel
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  • Let's take a walk. Maybe we'll see a bear. Hey, you with the camera, go on ahead
  • "Help me!" Bruce is ensnared in a web of tourist-eating moss.
  • "Do you think if we just stare at him long enough he'll go away?"
  • Adding to the cairn
  • Alaska is for lovers.
  • Climbing "picture rock"
  • Ta Da!! "I can see Russia from up here."
  • Alaskan rock stars
  • Wecome to the MT. McKinley Princess Lodge
  • It says "CAUTION: Bears were observed on the hotel grounds this morning." Now they tell us.
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  • Excitedly awaiting the bus that will take us river rafting!
  • Suiting up
  • Are we having fun yet?
  • Apparently we are!
  • Ready to put in
  • High walls of slate surround us.
  • Firm buns of steel propell us
  • Serene birds of prey regurgitate on us.
  • Fed by glacial run off, the water is a murky gray color.
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  • There's my happy girl. She's found bear tracks.
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