Cruise Tour to Alaska June 6 - June 20, 2004
Fairbanks

We took a Holland America cruise tour to Alaska this year.  We were joined by our San Diego friends Nancy and Lea as well as Nancy's sister Billie.  We flew into Fairbanks where the temperature was a warm 84 (29 Celsius).  After Fairbanks, we took the McKinley Explorer luxury train to Denali Park.  After Denali, we took the same train to Anchorage and took a bus to Seward to board the Holland America liner Statendam for an 8 day cruise.

Index:

Fairbanks Denali Anchorage
Glaciers Sitka Juneau
Ketchikan Misc. Pictures

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View of downtown Fairbanks
We learned that Fairbanks
is an arctic desert.
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We visited Mary Shields, 
who was the first woman 
to complete the Iditaod race
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You can visit Mary's website


Mary demonstrating her
dog sled.

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Mary, Sandy, and Pat

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Mary's vegetable garden

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Typical road sign.
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Large Animal Research 
Station

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We visited the 
Fairbanks museum

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We took a riverboat tour on the 
Chena River and glacier fed 
Tanana river.
This is Susan Butcher 
and Dave Monson's kennel
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Raindeer are domesticated
Caribou
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Fish Camp
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Chena Indian Village
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Paddlewheel of 
the Discovery III
riverboat
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Float Plane

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Gold dredge #8
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Panning for gold
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Gold!

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Alaska Pipeline
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Billie, Sandy, Pat,
Nancy, Lea sitting in a 
section of the pipeline.

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We took the McKinley
Explorer to Denali National 
Park
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Index:

Fairbanks Denali Anchorage
Glaciers Sitka Juneau
Ketchikan Misc. Pictures

 

Fiji and Australia | Fort Lauderdale | Hawaii 2001| Kumi's Visit to San Diego | Cruise
Fresno and Santa Cruz | Japan | Sandynpat's Homepage | Denison 40th Reunion
Maui2002| Sweden | Southwest | Kingsburg | Ingalill
Pictures taken in June 2003 | Garden Compass Exotica Dinner
Fresno and Kingsburg | Garden Compass Rose Tour
Florida trip with Nancy and Lea January, 2003  | Kona 2003 | Wendy's wedding
Alaska 2004

Link to Sandynpat's homepage

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