Excellent adventures in travel
In November, I spent 2 weeks visiting friends in Cairo. Just before I arrived, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) opened the majority of its galleries as part of a “limited access” program “to test site readiness.” This museum has been a loooong time coming. Conceived as a Hosni Mubarak vanity project back in 2002, … Read more
We spent most of Sunday in Bartlett Cove, the only easily accessible part of Glacier Bay National Park. Two hundred years ago, Bartlett Cove was under the snout of the 100 mile long glacier that filled Glacier Bay. Today, the accessible portion is a narrow strip of rocky beach (outfall from the glacier), the estuary … Read more
On Saturday morning, we took one last Alaska boat ride, a 3.5 hour whale watching tour in the Icy Strait. The Icy Strait lies between the Alaska mainland and multiple islands of the Alexander Archipelago. It’s the primary channel for water flowing between the Pacific Ocean and the northern Inside Passage, with currents and tides … Read more
We spent Friday on an all day boat tour of Glacier Bay, arranged for us through the Glacier Bay Country Inn. Glacier Bay National Park extends across 3.3 million acres of varied ecosystems (mountains, glaciers, fjords, coastline and temperate rainforests) and is part of a four park, 25-million acre World Heritage Site, one of the … Read more
Thursday morning was all about packing up and cleaning house in preparation for our departure to Gustavus and Glacier Bay National Park that afternoon. We even found Juneau’s drop off recycling center, located conveniently near the airport. While we were packing, we practiced the mnemonic that every Alaskan kid learns to remember the five kinds … Read more