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Skriven 2006-08-28 16:08:48 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
     Kommentar till en text av Carol Shenkenberger
Ärende: Re: Alaska
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> Ok, we avoid the 4th.  Perhaps prices go decent my the 4th of Aug?
 
Well, prices are the best in early February ... <bwahahahaha>
 
But serious, there's plenty accomodation when you avoid the week before and
after the 4th of July.
 
I would even go as far suggesting to rent an RV, perhaps not the cheapest way
but Seward has plenty spaces for them, really affordable. Lots of room,
bike-paths for the girl, the "SeaLife" sorta marine-zoo where Charlotte might
get "a job" <wink>. Get Don an AARP-pass (he's 55 or over, right?) and the
local "Target" will get him a 10% senior-citizen discount.
 
After a few days there you could hop over to Valdez. Not far as the crow flies
but with an RV about 2 days driving. There's also plenty room there and the
fishing is excellent as well in the Prince William Sound. Excellent boat tours
along sealion-rookeries and a glacier dropping straight into the sea with, as
far as I know, the only salt-water morene in the world.
 
Forgot, in Seward there are excellent smale whale-watching boat tours daily.
 
Also, should Don become too engrossed in fishing and "the ladies" would like a
shift in activities, there's a daily train of the Alaska Railroad from Seward
in the morning to Anchorage returning that same-evening. There's really not
that much to see or do in Anchorage if you don't have to be there, but the
Alaska zoo has some interesting specimens, such as "Maggie, the northernmost
elephant in the world", snow leapards, many grizzlies, also a blue-shaded
"Glacier" Grizzly (quite rare). It's a small operation and not affiliated to
the Zoo-association.
 
North of Valdez you can take the dirt-road to McCarthy and visit the impressive
abandoned copper-mine (that's 120 miles on a dirt road, but quite feasable). Or
drive north to Denali and hitch a NationalPark shuttle-bus into the park. Or go
still further north past Fairbanks and go swimming in the hot pools of Chena.
 
If you email me an address I could mail you a photo-CD to get the feel of it.
It takes a bit of preparation.
 
 \%/@rd

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