I will be adding / posting daily narratives every few days to this thread, until complete. I hope you can enjoy this. ... Rick / Snoop!!
EDIT: Nov.2, '17 : I just realized that some of the links are not doing what I had hoped when clicking on the "highlight" portion. You may have to do a copy/paste thing to include the entire link and not just the highlighted portion. Sorry for that.. And thanks for reading.
NORTH to ALASKA !!
Preview … the rush is on!
Join us as we recount our 13 day adventure in August, 2017 when we went to Alaska. As many of you already know, Carol does a wonderful job with her scrapbook documenting our holiday adventures. Me …?? … I just use her scrapbook as a guide for my written narrative.
She has written: “2017 was going to be the year with no vacation because of the expense involved with redoing our driveway last summer. However, a good friend and scrapbook buddy and I had been talking for months about going to Alaska. I thought we might plan for 2018 until she saw an ad on TV for a trip promoted by our local Winston-Salem NC TV station WXII, to begin on August 11. The tour included our flights and many activities and sights in Alaska (my last state) AND part of the Yukon Territory of Canada. This was followed by a 4-night cruise along the inside passage. The cost seemed high until we checked with other sources which came in higher than WXII’s all-inclusive rate. Thus, we bit the financial bullet and placed our reservations on March 4. This will probably be my only trip to Alaska, so I wanted to include as much as possible.”
And thus the “rush” began with preparations and research about what we were about to see. The tour company … Holiday Vacation … started sending us brochures and other information about the planned itinerary and Carol started her “research” about what we were going to see. The excitement level in the house steadily increased with each passing week. We had done a couple other commercial tours in the past and remembered the good and the bad parts of being in a group. I will say this … Holiday Vacations did an outstanding job with this one.
Our tour was to begin and end in Greensboro, NC and we were met at the airport by our tour guide, Diane, who flew in from Wisconsin to meet us and conduct the tour. She stayed with us until we returned home to Greensboro at the end. Diane was always smiling and really looked after the 46 other people on this tour. One could NOT have asked for a better guide!!
Carol has done a fantastic job over the years in her preparations for our various vacation trips. She has accumulated a bare minimum of a travel wardrobe for the both of us AND got everything needed condensed down to a single “carry on” piece of luggage for each of us. We don’t have to worry about checked luggage getting lost and its much lighter in weight!! Our bags were packed and sitting by the door on July 30 !! THANK YOU, CAROL!!
Tomorrow starts our trip North to Alaska, the rush is on!!