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Alaska Inside Passage - Being There 🏔️ Alaska - Being There Inside Passage Adventures - The Great Land 🗺️ Alaska Inside Passage Route From Seattle through the pristine wilderness Southeast Alaska Click markers to explore ports of call • Interactive Inside Passage Map Being There "By the time I recognize this moment, This moment will be gone" Wow What a Summer - Alaska is a lot like pizza. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good; and like the Pizza Guy, Alaska always delivers. "But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on. Well all I got's Ooh ooh ooh ooh" ...

Alaska Field Notes · Being There Being There Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs. Water, weather and Juneau do the rest. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Nature’s living mirror is water—whether still or in motion. The most beautiful landscapes are exponentially better with it. The Call North to the Future Ed in Juneau See the world. Fly Pan Am in search of what you need and return home north to the future. The geography of bliss is Alaska—and its weather. A change in it is enough to reboot the world and ourselves. A land of prom...

Alaska Field Notes · Ordinary World No Bad Weather. Only Good Clothing. Ketchikan rain, laughter, poetry, and the Big Kahuna approach to temporary joy. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir I find myself in the perpetual company of people who love the rain and love to laugh about it. This may be my definition of true happiness. The Call Some Get Wet. Others Dance. It is the locals—some emos—who simply get wet. Others, poets, go dancing in the rain, hoping to be struck by lightning. Chaplin liked to walk in the rain because nobody could see his tears. I do not cry, like Charlie, because it is over. I smile, like the Big Kahuna, because it...

Marjorie Glacier is one of the most photogenic glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. I had the good fortune to be there today None of these landscapes are ugly because they are natural and wild!  I learn about geography by traveling by cruise ship; geology, the day after a  huge event-- They  take place   every day somewhere around the planet--- earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move.  When I attempt  to pick out anything by itself in Alaska , I find it connected to everything else in the Universe, yet I feel my smallness because of its vastness. The wilderness is therapy: Only by going alone in silence, without baggage and buffets,could I  truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other traveling, including on this ship, is Karaoke traveling-a cheap imitation. But it's still worth doing. I can hear the ice sheet-music of the glacier calving and  the music of the bay  written in ice river lines. .. K...

After the Gold Rush · Alaska Alaska · After the Gold Rush Heavy Traffic Without the Road Rage When the Caribbean slips into the off-season, the cruise ships point north. Alaska becomes the next frontier—not colonized exactly, but inhabited eight hours at a time. See Image Show Text Neil Young once imagined Mother Nature abandoning a pillaged planet in search of a new beginning—a “silver seed.” Alaska feels like the place the cruise ships went looking for it. The Scene After the Gold Rush Heavy Traffic Without the Road Rage The Reflection The New Seasonal Colony The Caribbean is now off-season. Tourists board cruise ships to find a new place to colonize—or at least inhabit for eight hours. That place is Alaska. The ships arrive like floating neighborhoods, unloading temporary citizens into ports framed by mountains, cold water, and the illusion that wilderness can remain untouched while thousands of us photograph it. Rust never sleeps. Neither ...

I can't English this right now-Speechless A marvel of nature which lies 2,000 feet above historic downtown Juneau, the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield is the fifth largest icefield in North America. Extending from Taku Inlet to Skagway, the icefield is the birthing ground of 38 major glaciers, including Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier. The icefield is estimated to be around 3,000 years old, but it is in a constant state of renewal and retreat depending on each year's dosage of snow.  When trying to describe the initial human response to seeing and experiencing the Juneau Icefield, Capt. Eugene Cernan, the last astronaut to walk on the moon, recalled his pre-lunar training experience near Juneau. Apparently NASA chose the icefield as one of the places on Earth that "captured the emotional sensations that one might encounter while walking on the moon." The expansive views, the stark beauty, and the harshness of the ice and rock would have you agreeing with them.   .tr...

I can't English this right now-Speechless A marvel of nature which lies 2,000 feet above historic downtown Juneau, the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield is the fifth largest icefield in North America. Extending from Taku Inlet to Skagway, the icefield is the birthing ground of 38 major glaciers, including Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier. The icefield is estimated to be around 3,000 years old, but it is in a constant state of renewal and retreat depending on each year's dosage of snow.  When trying to describe the initial human response to seeing and experiencing the Juneau Icefield, Capt. Eugene Cernan, the last astronaut to walk on the moon, recalled his pre-lunar training experience near Juneau. Apparently NASA chose the icefield as one of the places on Earth that "captured the emotional sensations that one might encounter while walking on the moon." The expansive views, the stark beauty, and the harshness of the ice and rock would have you agreeing with them...

Sea Years · Departure / Initiation / Return The Sea That Made Me An accidental sailor's hero's journey—from purchasing freedom by the weekend to discovering that a life can be redesigned from first principles. Begin the journey See full image ↗ The argument Departure Initiation First principles The fleet Return This is not a list of ships. It is a chain of cause and effect: one decision created motion; motion created distance; distance created perspective; perspective changed the design of a life. The old story said that growing up meant settling down, that freedom was something purchased in weekends and two-week vacations, and that age was an expiration date stamped on the body. I believed enough of that story to feel its limits. The sea did not rescue me with scenery. It confronted me with a better operating system. On a shi...