Alaska, here we come

Pre-retirement Trip #2

We are wanting do as much travelling as possible and preparing for retirement. In keeping with that theme, we went to Alaska on a cruise last year in July. We were able to do a 14 day round-trip from Vancouver. It's best to that if you have the time, in case you get rain or clouds or fog on one of the days in port or cruising. We had a wonderful time saw some interesting scenery and met some great people. I have included some pictures.

Note the bright colours.

The next day

Jannose, with our friends who we met on the ship

We ended up spending the next 5 days with our Australian friends. We did many hikes and independent tours together, the above hike to the Ketchikan water reservoir to the waterfalls in Skagway to the Micro-brewery in Juneau. We had so much fun together. Our next holiday, in April in China, Greg and Marilyn are going to join us. Look out China--Aussies and Canadians together. The Great Wall, Forbidden city, Terra Cotta Warriors, Yangtze River Cruise, Shanghai, Suzhou, Hong Kong. We can hardly wait.

This blog is going to be my on-line diary and we hope to be able to upload pictures for our friends to check out.