{"id":544,"date":"2010-07-25T09:59:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T15:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/?p=544"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:00:11","slug":"along-the-klondike-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/along-the-klondike-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Along The Klondike Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOoga Ooga Mooska\u201d from the Great White North!<\/p>\n<p>Have arrived in Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon Territory CANADA!<\/p>\n<p>It seems like we\u2019ve spent more time in Canada so far on this journey than in Alaska..but we\u2019re getting there. This is the first time since Seattle, we\u2019ve had access to free internet..but civilization ends tonight when we stay in a remote little village called Beaver Creek YT \u00a0at a hotel that doesn\u2019t have TV or phone service so we\u2019ll really be out in the boonies until Fairbanks tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p>The 4 days and three nights aboard Holland America\u2019s Volendam cruise ship were great fun as were the stopovers in Juneau and Skagway. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_545\" style=\"width: 549px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-545\" class=\"size-full wp-image-545\" title=\"alaska on deck\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/files\/2010\/07\/alaska-on-deck.jpg\" alt=\"Cruising one of the Fjords along the Inside Passage\" width=\"539\" height=\"359\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cruising one of the Fjords along the Inside Passage<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don\u2019t know why Alaskan towns, known historically for attracting gold seekers have diamond jewelry shops every other building on main street. No, I didn\u2019t buy Linda a diamond. I got her some neat under garments, though.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-546\" title=\"alaska linda underwear\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/files\/2010\/07\/alaska-linda-underwear.jpg\" alt=\"alaska linda underwear\" width=\"588\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of under garments, we enjoyed a brewed beverage in Skagway at a place called The Red Onion. It celebrates the tradition of it\u2019s origins..which was a house where soiled doves entertained all the lonely gold seekers trudging \u00a0their way up the Klondike in the late 1800\u2019s. You can take a guided tour of the rooms for the same price the miners paid for pleasure in them 110 years ago; five dollars.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_547\" style=\"width: 549px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-547\" class=\"size-full wp-image-547\" title=\"alaska trip 030\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/files\/2010\/07\/alaska-trip-030.jpg\" alt=\"I asked our waitress if I could take her picture. She pointed and said, &quot;you're not turned on.&quot; She must have been talking about the camera.\" width=\"539\" height=\"359\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I asked our waitress if I could take her picture. She pointed and said, &quot;you&#39;re not turned on.&quot; She must have been talking about the camera.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We\u2019ve had so many terrific experiences on this tour already and the best is yet to come. I\u2019ll share a few more adventures and photos once we get settled in Fairbanks\u2026but for now, we have just a few minutes to board the coach and head off into the awe inspiring wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The only wild animal Linda has seen so far is me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOoga Ooga Mooska\u201d from the Great White North! Have arrived in Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon Territory CANADA! It seems like we\u2019ve spent more time in Canada so far on this journey than in Alaska..but we\u2019re getting there. This is the first time since Seattle, we\u2019ve had access to free internet..but civilization ends tonight when&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lund-at-large","category-60","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11863,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/11863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}