Greg and Kat's blog

We’re back from the Alaska cruise. We didn’t blog daily like China since it was a lot more sedate. Here’s the rundown:

• Saturday: Get on the boat; start sailing.
• Sunday: At sea and the Inside Passage.
• Monday: Tracy Arm and Juneau.
• Tuesday: Skagway.
• Wednesday: Glacier Bay.
• Thursday: Ketchikan.
• Friday: At sea.
• Saturday: Off the boat.

I put pictures of the cruise up if you want to see it. There’s some good stuff in there. Again, many of the pictures are geotagged, so you can click the Google Earth/Maps link on the left of the gallery.

I wasn’t expecting wild excitement on an Alaska cruise with Holland America (which has an older demographic). But, I was looking forward to the downtime and being bored, so that was just fine with me.

That kind of worked out, but I spent a lot of time being dragged around by Kat to events on the boat. Kat decided to collect ship bucks that could later be redeemed for swag. That meant participating in (for example) several Name-That-Tune games which consisted entirely of music for the Holland America demographic which we didn’t know.

The shore days were a little depressing. The three cities we went to seemed to only exist for the purpose of providing cruise ships somewhere to dock and their passengers to buy crappy souvenirs. (That’s probably not entirely true, but from what a cruise ship passenger sees, that’s what it looks like.) Ketchikan was my favourite: it felt the least artificial.

That’s not much of a summary of a week of travel, but short of describing every day in excruciating detail, I’m going to stop. Kat probably has more highlights that she can blog about all by herself.