{"id":549,"date":"2010-07-28T10:29:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T16:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/?p=549"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:00:11","slug":"northern-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/northern-exposure\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the Alcan Highway is rough and bouncy.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the mosquitoes are the size of hungry hummingbirds.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the weather changes more often than Lori Line on tour.<\/p>\n<p>But the Yukon Territory and Alaska also contain some of the most stunningly majestic mountains and wondrously remote wilderness areas on earth. We\u2019ve managed to see a grizzly bear and three moose (meese?) along the road so far and we\u2019re only half way across Alaska\u2019s interior.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve taken a three hour river cruise aboard a real sternwheeler..gobbled down fresh salmon and \u00a0halibut at the famous Fairbanks Salmon Bake and panned for gold at the El Dorado discovering for ourselves the excitement of seeing that \u201cflash in the pan\u201d of yellow gold: 24 dollars worth in our case.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve gotten to know and enjoy the company of our fellow travelers and look forward to each days new experiences that are slipping by all too quickly.<\/p>\n<p>I know there\u2019s often nothing more\u00a0 boring than looking at someone else\u2019s vacation pictures but am posting a few anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Down to Anchorage and the 27 glacier tour before it all comes to a conclusion with an overnight flight back to reality Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-550\" title=\"alaska trip 055\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/files\/2010\/07\/alaska-trip-055.jpg\" alt=\"alaska trip 055\" width=\"588\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-551\" title=\"alaska trip 095\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/files\/2010\/07\/alaska-trip-095.jpg\" alt=\"alaska trip 095\" width=\"588\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_553\" style=\"width: 592px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-553\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-553\" title=\"alaska trip 099\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/files\/2010\/07\/alaska-trip-0991.jpg\" alt=\"Panning for gold at the El Durado..we got 24 dollars worth.\" width=\"582\" height=\"388\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panning for gold at the El Durado..we got 24 dollars worth.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0I&#8217;ve posted all our photos on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the Alcan Highway is rough and bouncy. Yes, the mosquitoes are the size of hungry hummingbirds. Yes, the weather changes more often than Lori Line on tour. But the Yukon Territory and Alaska also contain some of the most stunningly majestic mountains and wondrously remote wilderness areas on earth. We\u2019ve managed to see a&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\/549"}],"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=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11862,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/11862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}