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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" ...

Being There Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. Nature's living mirror, however is water---whether still or in motion,The most beautiful landscapes are to the nth degree exponentially better with it.  See the World. Fly Pan Am in search of what you need and return home,North to the future, a land of promise, to find it.The geography of bliss is Alaska, and it's weather. A change in it is enough to reboot the world and ourselves.11,623 Eskimos Can't be Wrong.     Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops,each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffsand hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks,out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers .  John Muir As long as I live,I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood,storm, and the avalanche.I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens,...

No such thing as good weather here only good clothing! 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. It's the locals,some emos, who just get wet,others, poets, who 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 don't cry, like the Charlie  because it's over. I smile, like the Big Kahuna because it happened. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. Carpe Diem means Fish of the day  8/2011 Last August in Ketchikan

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...

Heavy Traffic Without The Road Rage Neil Young sang a song a song in the 70's  about  Mother Nature abandoning  the pillaged planet, and going in search of a new beginning ("silver seed"). T he Caribbean  is now off-season,  tourists board cruiseships to find a new place to colonize,(or inhabit for 8 hours) called Alaska. Rust never sleeps.

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...

Give me you pale, your pasty and your King-Crab-Salmon-lacking  masses- at  Princess Cruises . After Monday and Tuesday, all that's left in the Pacific Northwest  is W T F, eh?  From the excessively hot weather in NYC, I saw a heat wave, and now I am waving back, here in the cool crispy air.Clothes are vintage, bohemian, and flannel hipster.  Although, I have embraced my baldness without compromise,  The Drudge Rule ( Bald men who constantly wear hats to hide baldness) is in effect.   I lost my  Marmot   Precip(itation)  hat in transit- Now more tan lines but  Now I'm  gonna rust! until I get to a store.   Male Pattern Madness! Looking forward to a great season up here in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, with or without wearing a baseball cap, although I seldom took it off in  the   2011 season: Victoria, B.C -Open Sources Vancouver - Wonderful Tonight If You See A Fork In The Road-Take It. All On The ...

Denali is not a river in Egypt. It's an ocean of mountains in Alaska.  Headed there in a few days   I go to Alaska  to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. I spent last Summer there and am glad to return.  It is very difficult to generalize. Everyone's adventure is original. Yet the clearest way into the Universe is through a  Pacific NorthWest and Alaska  forest wilderness .  The  wildlife, rugged  and awe-inspiring natural wonders I missed last time because of  ( land)work in Ketchikan, are actually on my  cruise itinerary---Juneau, Skagway,  and Glacier Bay. When you visit  America  you get a ticket to the freak show. When you visit Alaska, you get a front row seat. "Alaska is a nice place, but it can kill you if you're not careful" was the first words I heard from a  Salmon-Halibut -fishing Boat Captain, when I docked in Ketchikan.  "One of the most deadliest...

To see a world in a  grain  of  sand , And a heaven in a wild flower , Hold  infinity  in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. Greenwich Village's Golden Age and of the artists, rebels, and eccentrics who make the Village a cultural phenomenon are still present, even on a rainy night Cowboy Sherpa and Sand Painting Artist Joe Mangrum does the heavy lifting. In the tradition of Tantric Buddhism, painting with colored sand ranks as one of the most unique and exquisite. These  "mandala of colored powders." are made with millions of grains of sand are painstakingly laid into place on a flat platform over a period of days or weeks. Joe From Russia With Love Students say Good bye Lesson Impossible-The Italians  Arrive! -

Emigrants  or Immigrants huddled masses I came to America last week as an expat .  You know, on a Disney cruise ship , through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the bedrock  of the American Dream. It has  become the statue of my personal liberty.  We don't call it the statue of immigration, we call it the statue of liberty. Lady Liberty is stepping forward. She is meant to be carrying the torch of liberty from the USA to the rest of the world.   With Steve Mars In NYC Today Empire State of Mind Jay Z expresses  his personal feelings about  everyday life in NYC. Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade Long live the Kingdome, I'm from the Empire St. that's New York The  black and white opening slide show captures the t he upper-crust  landmarks that make Manhattan famous,  a far cry from the Marcy Projects that he ...

Le plus grand faible des hommes, c'est l'amour qu'ils ont de la vie.  Man's greatest weakness is his love of life.  Molière. It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter, Yet, Charles de Gaulle was right, How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? A group photo was the best solution.Things went smoothly today at Ground Zero with my French English language learner students, thanks to that wonderful GPS system called a cell phone, with homage to text messaging. I managed to wrangle everyone accross and back from the Brooklyn Bridge.Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. Who needs film when you have digital. Brooklyn-A Bridge To Far

Picasso Paid Them To Leave  One belongs to New York  instantly ,one belongs to it as much in 10 minutes as in 10 years I grew up young wanting to leave it, and I am growing old wanting to get back to it. But you cant't go home.(again).The future just ain't what it used to be. Nobody walks in L.A. but  getting around by subway in NYC is no longer a  pain in the English, since I can ask for directions in almost any language now, and I did, especially in Spanglish. The Underground is not  some political movement.It's public transpo. "Going to the city" by subway from Long Island, I can see the resentment and fatigue in the faces of commuters, of the speed  and success of those living in the city successfully.Yesterday there was a sense of togetherness on the train---one guy wanted to share my pants I caught the M train to MOMA today, and stopped by ST Patrick's Cathedral, Rockefeller Center and Hearld Sq today. The  Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, I fe...

Picasso Paid Them To Leave  One belongs to New York  instantly ,one belongs to it as much in 10 minutes as in 10 years I grew up young wanting to leave it, and I am growing old wanting to get back to it. But you cant't go home.(again).The future just ain't what it used to be. Nobody walks in L.A. but  getting around by subway in NYC is no longer a  pain in the English, since I can ask for directions in almost any language now, and I did, especially in Spanglish. The Underground is not  some political movement.It's public transpo. "Going to the city" by subway from Long Island, I can see the resentment and fatigue in the faces of commuters, of the speed  and success of those living in the city successfully.Yesterday there was a sense of togetherness on the train---one guy wanted to share my pants I caught the M train to MOMA today, and stopped by ST Patrick's Cathedral, Rockefeller Center and Hearld Sq today. The  Metropolitan ...