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  • We're off on the road to the Yukon.
  • Cindy takes a precautionary dose of seasick medicine. I'll need one too.
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  • Happy Anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. T!
  • Ketchican harbor, crack of dawn
  • Off the ship at 6:00 a.m. ready for our first Alaskan excursion, seal clubbing. No, we went to Misty Fiords. Seal clubbing was sold out.
  • Grandpa! You're Alive!!
  • Expected fiord portrait
  • My fiord honey
  • Mist in the fiord
  • The Zaandam and a Celebrity ship get buzzed by a float plane
  • The Island Princess
  • Back on shore, Mary is attacked by a wooden eagle
  • Two ladies of Creek St. In earlier times this area of town was populated with bordellos and saloons, an always popular combination
  • Bruce and Cindy, still jazzed from their zipline adventure, join Mary on the boardwalk
  • Local color
  • Mandatory Ketchican totem portrait. You've left your car in the "Man-with-the -bird-on-his-head" parking section
  • Having seen all of Ketchican, our band of travelers heads back to the ship.
  • But first, some shopping
  • "Just a little memento of our trip"
  • "He followed me back to the ship. Can I keep him?? Can I???"
  • Off to see Juneau, the girls feel no fear as they are accompanied by Indiana T. (Queue theme music)
  • Is that a camera under your jacket?
  • Cold and rainy
  • Called fireweed because it is first to sprout after a fire
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  • Cindy wants to know if there'll be gift shops in Juneau.
  • Pretty much Juneau
  • Attack of the soggy tourists
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  • The Mendenhall Quartet view the glacier near Juneau.
  • Salmon spawning in a stream
  • Perfect spot for a bear.
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  • Mendenhall Glacier, AK, 2009, from the visitors center
  • The Mendenhall Quartet
  • Melt water cascades from the base of the glacier. The volume of water coming off of the glacier is staggering.
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  • Glacial runoff
  • Glacial run off and the girl it run off for.
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  • Mandatory glacier portrait
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  • Model shows the Juneau icefield and the glaciers that come off of it.
  • Pit stop on the way to the Yukon. Refresh, visit the gift shop and cross our bridge to nowhere
  • Behold the tourist, festooned with tourist accoutrements
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  • Obligatory "Aawww!" photo of baby sled dog
  • Sled dog compound at Yukon Pit Stop; this location is operated by world-famous taxidermist couple. None of the dogs, as far as we could tell, were stuffed
  • Emerald Lake
  • "Pardon me, boy, is that the Transylvania Choo-choo?"
  • Token Choo-choo portrait
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  • Pipeline in background provides hydroelectric power to the town of Skagway. Obviously not everyone is impressed by that.
  • Cantiliver bridge over gorgeous gorge
  • Red, blue, and white
  • Note the gray, silt-filled water that is characteristic of glacial runoff
  • You'd think they'd never seen a woman in a red coat before.
  • Behold the tourist's wife
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  • Mystereous lake. Native legend held that if you put your hand in the water you would summon demons from the depths of the lake which would devour you.
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  • Lucky for you the demon is on vacation in Hawaii this week.
  • Some modern travelers feel compelled to challenge the legend of the demon.
  • Mandatory Neener, neener, we beat the demon portrait
  • Larger than life and colder than a titches wit.
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  • On, King! On you huskies!
  • Gone to the dogs
  • Dog sled harnesses
  • One of two young women who train the dogs here. She worked like mad to harness the dogs for our ride and was covered in dust that the dogs kick up as they run. These dogs were so excited to go
  • This young woman worked like a dog too. She was covered with dust and so were we when we were done following behind those running dogs.
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  • This was one of our Alaskan highlights. So much fun.
  • This is reportedly the largest bear ever mounted, at least by a taxidermist. 11 ft. 8 inches, nose to tail
  • "Buffalo Mary" queen of the Yukon
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  • Straight out of Dr. Suess, the Saiga antelope
  • It looks like Indy found a friend.
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