Travel Blog

Sue:

Payne location update: we're in Declo, Idaho, for tonight. We're not sure if we'll be heading out tomorrow or trying to watch the Steelers game. We got to listen to the Penn State game today on satellite radio, so that was fun. It was a pretty exciting game, even over the airwaves. I know Phil's vote is to keep keepin' on, but I've been a bit out of sorts since getting off the ferry. I have a bit of vertigo, like I'm still rockin' and rollin' with the waves. Um, Pat, you took the ferry. Did that happen to you? And if so, when does it stop? Ugh.

Enough about that...back to the Malaspina. The ferry left Skagway around 5:00 p.m., and I think at that time there were only about 54 people on the ferry. So Phil, me and a fellow Corrington employee, Sonya, who was taking the ferry as far as Juneau, walked around the empty decks for awhile.

Sonya was an old hand at taking the ferry, so she showed us where everything was - cafeteria, movie theater, game room, etc. We stayed on deck until we reached Haines, but by then it was getting dark and everyone needed a nap. So Phil and I went to our cabin while Sonya went to find her nephew. We reached Juneau at around 2:00 a.m., and they let us go down to take the dogs out. We met up with Sonya at our RV to say goodbye to her, and then we got off the ferry to walk Willoughby and Xander.

Juneau:

Luckily we had been to Juneau before, so we didn't care that this was the best picture we could get. Plus, the ferry dock is about 17 miles from downtown Juneau anyway, so it's not like we would have seen much more.

We felt pretty awake after the dog call, but it was the middle of the night, so we went back to our cabin and went back to bed, and surprisingly enough, fell back asleep. But we were up pretty early in the morning, and had time to take some great, spooky pictures before we reached Sitka.

And then we got to Sitka at around noon, and since we were only going to be in dock for about two hours, and since the ferry dock was once again way out of town, Phil and I spent the couple hours walking the dogs around a very, very beautiful, woodsy hiking trail near the ferry terminal. But I'll show you all that in tomorrow's post. For now, I'll leave you with a picture of Sitka's ferry dock.