Category: Ketchikan

Post-Covid Cruising With Longtime Friends

“We’ve all survived! We survived a few years of the pandemic!” The theater audience on the cruise ship Norwegian Jewel in late April excitedly cheered and applauded dynamic entertainer Stephanie Pope. Yes, it was definitely good to be cruising again. In fact, this was my husband Carl’s and my sixth cruise since October 2021. We…


Deep Into the Heart of Alaska: By Air, Road, and Rail

It is difficult to even begin to comprehend a place like Alaska. Vast, in a way that’s almost indescribable. Arctic tundra and temperate rain forest. The tallest mountain on the continent, so high that its summit is coated with mighty glaciers and, most of the time, shrouded by cloud. Untamed rivers flowing into frigid seas….


Film Review: ‘The Race to Alaska’: ‘Mad Max’ Meets the Iditarod on Water

NR | 1h 39min | Documentary, Sports | 20 May 2022 (USA) Everyone knows one or, at least, knows someone who knows one (or maybe, it’s you): the people that regularly participate in “extreme” sporting events. Apart from the microscopic number of those who engage in these activities as a profession, the remainder do so for the sheer thrill of it…