North to Alaska

In a couple of weeks we will begin Cruise XI, Celebrity VI, Alaska III.
That means our eleventh cruise, our sixth cruise on the Celebrity Cruise line, and our third cruise to Alaska.

We will fly to Vancouver, B.C. and take the Inside Passage north, and across the Gulf of Alaska to Seward. Then by bus to Anchorage, where we will fly home. No two Alaska cruises are alike. The first time we flew up and cruised back, the second one we cruised up, not quite as far and came back to Vancouver. This time we will do the opposite of the first one.

I remember flying into Anchorage and seeing a landscape below that was wall to wall glaciers. From the air, they tend to have black and white stripes. I also remember watching icebergs form in Glacier Bay as chunks of ice broke off the end of the glacier. That process is called calving. The bay was filled with floating chunks of blue and white ice. They say that only 10% of the iceberg is above the surface, so those were whopping big ice cubes.

We will visit picturesque little towns like Skagway and slightly larger towns like Juneau, the state capital. You can't get to Juneau by road. You have to fly in, or come by ship.

We will be cruising on the Summitt, a ship we have never been on before. It's a big ship. We will have a balcony and therefore a good view of some of the world's best scenery. I hope to see whales and eagles.

Expect some more detail when we get back.
Howard