{"id":2894,"date":"2013-07-18T11:33:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T17:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:00:05","slug":"goin-north-the-rush-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/goin-north-the-rush-is-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Goin&#8217; North The Rush Is On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday evening and I can hear the frustrated voice of Linda in the bedroom muttering under her breath; \u201cThese suitcases too damn full. We\u2019ll probably be over the 50 pound limit and have to pay extra.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same song she sings every time we\u2019re about to leave on another Keloland\/Holiday Vacations tour..which we do on Friday and we&#8217;ve always weighed in under the limit. The bed is piled high with a wide variety of clothing and we must decide what we\u2019re going to absolutely need over the next two weeks.\u00a0 I toss a few things on the pile and in the \u201cto-be-washed\u201d basket figuring I\u2019m good to go. Before long, though, she reminds me that temperatures swing big time in Alaska and the Yukon. I might need more than a couple of Polo shirts and a jacket. Thank God she does fret because, although I\u2019m getting better, I tend to assume that, by now, she knows what we need and it\u2019s no big deal to pack it all up. Of course that\u2019s wrong but, like I said, I\u2019m getting better at realizing it.<\/p>\n<p>Yup, Alaska. This will be our fourth trip to the great white north \u00a0and we\u2019re looking forward to the adventure of once again trekking into this amazing country with its majestic mountains and unspoiled wilderness..then boarding a Holland America Cruise Ship and sail South through the Inside Passage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/files\/2013\/07\/alaska-2013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2895\" alt=\"alaska 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/files\/2013\/07\/alaska-2013.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"688\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Holiday Vacations keeps booking these tours because so many Keloland viewers keep requesting and signing up for them. We have another full group this time including several repeat travelers..for which we\u2019re so grateful.<\/p>\n<p>As always, I\u2019ll have the computer along and \u00a0be sharing stories and photos on Keloland.com \u201cLund at Large\u201d so you can vicariously travel along and, maybe consider going with us next time.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I just hope the airline has enough seat belt extenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday evening and I can hear the frustrated voice of Linda in the bedroom muttering under her breath; \u201cThese suitcases too damn full. We\u2019ll probably be over the 50 pound limit and have to pay extra.\u201d It\u2019s the same song she sings every time we\u2019re about to leave on another Keloland\/Holiday Vacations tour..which we do&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11649,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/11649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}