Travel Blog

The salmon run fizzled out sooner this year than last. I don’t know why I thought it’d be the same every year. The King Salmon ran this year, as you saw in an earlier post, but that was over with by the time Phil’s moms got here.


So they didn’t get to see all the dead fish lying all over the place like they saw on our website last season. I hope they weren’t too disappointed.
While Pat and Paula were here, we took a ride up to Carcross, Canada.
Bridge a little ways out of Skagway:


One of the rumors we’ve heard is that Carcross is a little town that the cruise ships are buying so they can bus people straight from the ships past Skagway into Canada. I guess that hasn’t happened on too big a scale yet because there’s not much to Carcross at all. We got there at around 2:45 p.m., and everything was getting ready to close at 3. And by everything, I mean one general store. That and the train station was about all Carcross was. Who would want to pass by Skagway for that? But the drive up was great. Phil and I don’t remember the drive out being so pretty last year.

When we got back from Canada, we decided to go try to see some bears at Dyea. But since there were no fish anymore, there weren’t any bears either.
Dyea Sunset:


But we did get to harass an eagle (did we learn nothing at Yellowstone?) and get some great pictures.

















Also while Phil’s moms were here, we got to do something new. Our boss, Sherry, used to drive the street cars here, so she was able to get us on the street car tour for free. (It’s so good to have connections.) I had a blast, and learned some stuff about Skagway that I didn’t know.






Tour Guide Doug:



The last part of this blog is courtesy of our good friend and co-worker, Jerry Harlin. He let us burn some great bear pictures and movie clips. Some are a little too great. He got wayyyyyy too close to a bear for some of these shots, so enjoy!

We have five more days of work, and then we’re heading out Saturday morning to Crookston, Minnesota, for the sugar beet harvest. Then it’s full-steam ahead for Carrolltown, Pennsylvania. I’m not sure how many more blogs I’ll get in before we leave, but I’ll try my best. Keep with us, though. I have a feeling life is going to get exciting in Minnesota.