O'Bosky Travel Journal and More!

Juneau, the capital of Alaska....a wonderful wet and rainy anniversary in Alaska! #39 A great ride on the Fjord Express catamarand.  This is a family owned business and their oldest daughter was our first mate for the day.  Just graduated high school and 18, she is working at getting her captain license. She was capable and did so much from tying up the boat to serving us hot beverages and seafood chowder on the way home to swinging the big boat around and docking us up as we returned!  The captain made sure that we saw lots of wildlife.  These are stellar sea lions and many were branded along their bodies so that the marine biologists can keep an eye on them.  There were so many of them lined up on the flat rocks.  It was a great sight to see!  The babies were having a swim here while the mom's took a break!  We saw so many bald eagles on this day!  You can see one tucked in the spruce tree here.  I took a great vid...

Our days at Haines, Alaska Wow...so much beauty here and really not enough words to even describe it all!  This is our first Alaska stop, a cute old town settled between the fijord of Lynn Canal and the Glaciers of tall jagged peaks.  We pull into town and get a discount price at the RV park in the far end of town between two main roads and then call the Oceanside RV Park to find that their rate is two dollars cheaper with a spectacular view of the bay and the towering snow covered mountains.  Not hard to decide where we will stay.  What a view!  We meet a number of nice people here, some we've connected with before at various places.  We met two former Marines traveling together who were NGG (not gay guys) and we've enjoyed their company.  While talking with the older Marine about Quartzsite, I realized that I had met him before there on Plomosa Road in Quartzsite when I stopped him to admire his truck.  He told me I could only look at it ...

Our Skagway Trip! We took the "Fast Ferry" to Skagway.  It was a short trip but beautiful!  We saw the terminal moraine of a glacier, bald eagles and spectacular mountains peeking at us through the clouds.    If you look carefully in this picture in the center, you can see our RVs parked in Haines at the Oceanside RV park.  This picture was taken from the Fast Ferry back toward Haines. Our view of the water and the mountains from this RV park was stunning!  We boarded the shuttle into the town of Skagway and here was the sign the driver was using above her tip container.  What a laugh!!  Our friends KC and Sheila had ridden this train a few days earlier from Carcross to Skagway.  It is the White Pass route.  We enjoyed waving and smiling at the folks aboard.  They waved and smiled back, all of them! LOL  We walked a short way to Reid Falls from the cemetery and were rewarded with this view of the falls.  N...