Just so you know – yes, it was raining which started on my way to town. Which is why (of course) I had neither my rain jacket nor my umbrella with me. The ones that I had dug out of the closet since it “never rains in Northern California.”…..
Meanwhile – I could understand the wall along one of the docks in the canary islands. The one with all the ship names and logos. Clear, simple and no risk to life & limb to add a new ship. There are mostly cruise ships noting their presence with the occasional naval vessel tossed in for leavening.
The signs painted on rocks interspersed between the trees clinging precariously to the side of the ridge which slopes down to the water at the Skagway Pier? Where you would be risking limb and friends to accomplish the task?
Not so much.
Then there is the town – which I am sure has requirements for all buildings in the commercial portion of town so that they look like “old west mining town.” Additionally, there are the usual informational placards, boardwalk sidewalks, murals, and mandatory tourist type shops…
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- Info on a side street
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- Mural of old town
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- been there a while
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- storefronts and wooden sidewalks
I found Alaskan Quilts and tracked down Aurora Yarns, skipped all the junk shops and managed to get back to the ship before becoming completely soaked…
I was wondering how on earth did they get a stone building in Alaska–and then I enlarged the picture. Oh. My. Goodness. Wow.
And then I googled Aurora Yarns Alaska and their stunning photo front and center has to be qiviut. I recognize it. I’m quite sure the hand-dyed qiviut I bought at the Anchorage Smithsonian museum was theirs.
Alaska is still on my “to do” list….guessing it may take a while at this point.
You want to see Alaska. But you could also take your car up by ferry. You could camp. You could take a ship. Or fly in and take the train north and south.
Lots of choices, but the glaciers are receding so rapidly that I would suggest in the next few years