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06-29-2009, 06:50 PM
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| Living Seas wannabe  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Jacksonville, FL
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| A Floridian heads north - onward to Alaska - Complete! Hi everyone! I know I have the PTR for the Western Caribbean cruise going on (need to update again), but this Sunday - I will leave for a two week work trip to Alaska - and since this will be my first trip to Alaska - I felt I had to do a live TR (since that will be the only way to get it all written for your reading pleasure prior to the cruise departure). How lucky am I to have work paying for my trip to Alaska!! I am going up a couple of days early to get a little touring time - since, while the rest of the class are staying later to enjoy Alaska - I have to head home to get all my packing, etc done for the western Caribbean cruise.... and have a wedding planning meeting about caterers, florists and music too! Here are the details - Sunday July 5 - Leave JAX for Anchorage via Atlanta Arrive - cab to the Anchorage Hilton Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday - touring in the area - considering a rental car - maybe.... still playing this by ear. My classmates will be arriving on Wed and we all have to have class on Thursday and Friday. I will change hotels on Wednesday to the Hawthorne Suites for the class. Friday evening - our classmate Lisa, who lives in Anchorage - is hosting a class party at her home and promising a true "Alaskan feast" with lots of "unique dining experiences". Since Lisa and her husband Mike are avid fishers and hunters - I can't wait to see what the options are! We have Saturday and Sunday off - so four of us (well three in the class plus one spouse) are driving/taking the train (yet undecided) to Seward for the day and I am thinking of a whale watching/glacier tour & shopping in and around Seward. Sunday is an open day - and asking Lisa and Mike for input. Monday - Wed we have class during the day. Wednesday evening a group of us are driving from Anchorage to Homer - and the rest of the class will fly into Homer on Thursday morning. We will stay overnight in Homer on Thursday and fly out to Port Graham (a native village) to meet with the elders while we are there. Friday evening we will end class and most of us will fly back to Anchorage. Saturday - my plane for JAX doesn't leave until 7pm on Saturday night - so I have more time to tour. My flight from Anchorage back to Atlanta is a red eye - I just hope I can sleep (debating the benefits of benedryl) after two weeks on Alaska time.... I land back in JAX at 930am on Sunday morning. Sunday will be spent cleaning, unpacking and desperately trying NOT to sleep so that I can sleep on regular time and attempt to reset my body as quick as possible to east coast time. That's it - not a major tourist trip to Alaska - but a trip none the less and I hope to be able to see and do some tourist things while I am visiting our 49th state!
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06-29-2009, 06:56 PM
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| RED SOX NATION!!  Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Connecticut
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| How exciting! Can't wait to hear all about it!! 
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06-29-2009, 08:16 PM
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| PassPorter Guide  Community Rank: Explorer   Join Date: May 2002 Location: Fort Smith, Arkansas
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| Well, jeesh talk about paths crossing!! Well, I guess not really since we aren't heading that far north.. but a general crossing nonetheless. Have a great trip!
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06-30-2009, 02:15 AM
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| How awesome - I can't wait to hear all about it. 
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06-30-2009, 09:47 AM
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| The Original BagMan  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Shalimar, FL
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| LOTS OF PICTURES!!!! Oh... And have fun gettin' smarter 
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06-30-2009, 11:07 AM
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| Community Rank: Globetrotter   Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: MI
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| It may not be a touristy trip, but I'm looking forward to hearing all about it!
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07-01-2009, 01:14 PM
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| Maybe not a touristy trip, but I'm jealous, jealous, jealous. I absolutely adore Alaska and I think the Homer Spit maybe the funkiest place on the planet. Have a blast Terri!
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07-02-2009, 01:25 PM
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| Doofy4Goofy  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York
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| I'm looking forward to hearing about this!
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07-02-2009, 09:18 PM
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| Living Seas wannabe Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Jacksonville, FL
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| Thursday - July 2 - more prep time!! I am home from Atlanta - and have the laundry from Atlanta (and whatever else was in the hamper) and now I am trying to figure out what type of clothes I need to take with me. I know the weather will be in the 50, 60 and 70s while I am there - with some rainy days... so I am thinking I should pack like I will be in the Northeast in the spring. I am thinking jeans, long sleeve shirts, fleece jacket, socks, and warm shoes. We will have some class days where we have to dress in business attire - and we will have field days and of course some weekend time that we can be in whatever we want. A couple of us are talking about driving from Anchorage to Skagway and stopping along the way based on a web-based driving tour that we have downloaded. I will probably finish all my packing on Saturday while Chris is at work, but at least the laundry is done, and now I just have to figure out what outfits to bring with me.
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07-03-2009, 01:28 AM
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| Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
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|  with the packing Terri.
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