Category: Alaska

Practical Travel Advice for Seniors: Seward, Alaska Seward was our last stop on the cruise-portion of our Alaskan tour and believe it or not, eleven days was enough on board a ship and we...

Practical Travel Advice for Seniors: Valdez, Alaska The Hubbard glacier is truly a marvel at 76 miles long and 400 feet high! It is one of the glaciers that is still advancing instead of...

Practical Travel Advice for Seniors: Sitka, Alaska Our last stop within the Inside Passage before setting sail for the Hubbard Glacier, was Sitka. Long inhabited by the native Tlingit people, Sitka was settled by...

Practical Travel Advice for Seniors: Skagway, Alaska Skagway is where the Alaskan Gold rush began around 1897. Gold was discovered in the Alaskan Klondike the year before and Skagway was the nearest jump off...

Practical Travel Advice for Seniors: Juneau, Alaska Juneau was one of our favorite stops, not because of our short walk through the city, but because we had signed up for a float plane ride...

Practical Travel Advice for Seniors: Icy Strait Point, Alaska Second stop on our Inside Passage cruise, was Icy Strait Point, a re-created fishing village by the town of Hoonah, a Tlingit community. The the...

Practical Travel Advice for Seniors: Wrangell, Alaska Wrangell is one of the oldest settlements in Alaska, the only Alaskan town to have been ruled by four nations: Lingít, Russia, Great Britain and the United...

Practical Travel Advice for Seniors: The Inside Passage An Alaskan cruise is on most American’s bucket list…and ours as well! We chose a small ship cruise because we don’t like huge crowds and smaller...