One of the highlights of our land tour, without a doubt, was the train ride from Denali to Talkeetna, where the Mt. McKinley Princess Lodge was located.  The ride was only about four and a half hours long (or at least it was supposed to be) but the trip was much better than riding the […]

This day was our bus tour into Denali National Park.  We were so excited to finally get a chance to see all the big sexy critters that most biologists tend to poo-poo (ostentatiously because they aren’t the really important part of the ecosystem; but honestly it is because they didn’t get the opportunity to work […]

So I am afraid I have to play a little catch-up.  I got to Denali, and really just got my ass kicked over a couple of days.  I was active and absolutely beat afterwards the two days we were there.  So I am thinking, no problem, we have a few easy days at the next […]

Today was our first “real day” in Alaska.  For once, we weren’t flying anywhere, but we definitely were not resting up either.  We did start off kind of easy at least.  We had breakfast around 7am in the resort’s Edgewater Dining Hall, did a little bit of shopping, then went off on our first tour […]

As I write this, I am already fighting sleep and it is only 8:20pm here in Alaska.  Of course, back home I would be fighting sleep, as it is 12:20am there.  Trying to use iTunes to stay awake is a rather futile effort, mostly because I get 30 seconds into a song, and my internet […]

We have completed the first day of our vacation.  It is now 12:30am Pacific Standard Time and I am still awake because I slept on the plane.  Melissa is conked out across about thee Alaska Airlines gate seats, including mine.  Good news – her feet don’t smell… Our morning started as it usually does the […]

It will soon begin…  Two weeks of exotic travel, to a latitude I have never been to before.  I’m hoping to be inspired; to see whales and puffins, observe a grizzly bear (from an appropriately safe distance), perhaps have some salmon that would make me feel like I paid top dollar (although considering how much […]