We had some time to explore Seward before the bus trip to our hotel in Anchorage. We walked around downtown before heading back to the pier to catch the bus.

The bus trip to Anchorage passed through some beautiful country. The road went around the Tournagain Arm. It was low tide and the Arm was mostly a mud flat. Interesting but not too pretty. We checked into the hotel which was quite nice. The city itself is much like any mid size American city. We headed out to explore the city. Not really much to do so we got some dinner and headed back to the hotel.

We spend two incredible days on the ship in Glacier Bay and College Fiord. The scenery was spectacular and the weather warm and sunny. I was surprised that I thought College Fiord was even more beautiful than Glacier Bay. We spent a long time at the end of the Fiord. The sky was deep blue, the glaciers were calving and the mountains behind were gleaming white.

The most popular tour in Skagway is to take the train that goes up White Pass Canyon. Rather than take the train, we decided to join a tour that takes a van up to the top of the pass and then we biked down. It was over a 10 mile trip with only a couple of hundred yards of up hill riding. My kind of bike trip. The scenery on the trip down was spectacular. The train went up the east side of canyon and the road we rode down was on the west. It was quite steep and af...

The highlight of our day in Juneau was a helicopter ride to a glacier where we walked on the glacier. It was a morning flight and the weather cooperated. It had been raining for several days prior but today was a beautiful sunny day. We arrived at the airport just as the helicopters were landing from the 1st flight of the day. They were 5 person helicopters and we were flying with another couple. They have one person fly up front with the pilot. The spouse of tha...