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You Do What On A Cruise Ship?

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Maritime Video Gallery - Life at Sea ๐ŸŒŠ Cruise Ship Life: Stories from the Sea "Working on ships has been a real life saver — and a life extender." THE BALLOON TYCOON 214K Unique visits World Cruise Coordinator Play 0:00 / 0:00 ✕ ๐Ÿšข Some of My Best Contracts' Gallery - Click To View Videos MS Prinsendam Celebrity Solstice Pacific Pearl Crystal Serenity Azamara Journey Carnival Splendor Princess Cruises Oasis of the Seas ...

New York City- Manhattan

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Return to New York 2012 - A Nautical Journey of Personal Liberty Return to New York A Nautical Journey of Personal Liberty ๐Ÿ“… July 14, 2012 ⚓ Back to the Harbor Where I Docked Two Months Ago Headed back to New York, where I docked two months ago. The familiar harbor beckons with memories of previous adventures and new discoveries waiting. Personal NYC Memories - 2012 The Dock - Portal to the Big Apple ๐Ÿšข Expat's Return Coming to Amer...

Alaska-The Great Land-Action Plan

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Alaska Inside Passage - Being There ๐Ÿ”️ Alaska - Being There Inside Passage Adventures - The Great Land ๐Ÿ—บ️ 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" ...

Salmon Fishing- Reeling In The Years

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There's a fine line between fishing and just standing o n a bridge looking like an idiot unless you are in Alaska holding a salmon  It is truly the king of fish I have been fishing all season but not for the fish, but what the wild salmon symbolize--- the Pacific Northwest's natural splendor. The 1000 year-old salmon run is alive and well

Wings Over Misty Fjords-Flightseeing

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More like Blue Sky Fjords  205 inches of rain a year and not one drop today. A unique Alaskan experience— We took off from Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base,  and the self-proclaimed Salmon capital of the world---the place where people don't get old, they rust...and rust never sleeps. Up in the air for 30 minutes on the single engine "flying boat" and the small remote mountain lakes  we saw below would be next to impossible to reach on foot, a reminder that most of this area is still wilderness and accessible only by small boat or plane.  In the heyday, I could imagine how snail mail (US) delivery runs must have been done this way. Hey Hey, My My Yet they were spectacular by air, like waves  each one  more powerful than the next. Pilot Jeff Carlin, picked out one of the lakes, landed the "puddle jumper"  and  JC turned off the noisy diesel engine that was a reminder that we left  the  the buzz of everyday life...

Tongass---No Rain, No Rainbow Falls

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The way I see it, if you want to see Rainbow Falls, you gotta put up with the rain. I think salmon fish in the package is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? Many consider the Tongass National Forest to be the "crown jewel" of our national forest system  One thing for sure- It's a  Watershed Moment---A point in time when nothing after will ever be the same as before when it comes to my appreciation for precipitation. It's no longer  the path of moist resistance. I like the rain. I finally got my bearings...

Tongass---No Rain, No Rainbow Falls

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The way I see it, if you want to see Rainbow Falls, you gotta put up with the rain. I think salmon fish in the package is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? Many consider the Tongass National Forest to be the "crown jewel" of our national forest system  One thing for sure- It's a  Watershed Moment---A point in time when nothing after will ever be the same as before when it comes to my appreciation for precipitation. It's no longer  the path of moist resistance. I like the rain. I finally got my bearings...

B.E.S.T. Bears Eagles Salmon Totem Poles

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If you're a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing for six months. I could deal with that. Before you hibernate, you're supposed to  gorge yourself stupid. on salmon I could deal with that too.  Bears are a proud people, although they're not people per-say. They're animals. Bears derive their name from an NFL football team in Chicago. Bears have been known to attack man, although the fact is that fewer people have been killed by bears than in all of World  Wars I and  II combined, and probably World War 3. Note to self:“Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.” Come On Dog, Mush!

B.E.S.T. Bears Eagles Salmon Totem Poles

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If you're a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing for six months. I could deal with that. Before you hibernate, you're supposed to  gorge yourself stupid. on salmon I could deal with that too.  Bears are a proud people, although they're not people per-say. They're animals. Bears derive their name from an NFL football team in Chicago. Bears have been known to attack man, although the fact is that fewer people have been killed by bears than in all of World  Wars I and  II combined, and probably World War 3. Note to self:“Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.” Come On Dog, Mush!

In The Sky-Wings Over The Inside Passage

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And the vagabond wind, whispers over the bay and the songs and the laughter, are carried away in the sky Anywhere there is blue on the map you can find them. Seaplanes don't need runways.Taking off and landing in water has a romantic fascination because float planes  can go places that you can't get to otherwise.  De Plane, De Plane

S E Alaska-Here Comes The Sun-

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And I Say It's Alright 5 days a year there is pure sunshine, the rest are liquid.  The Ketchikan-Misty Fiords Ranger District encompasses over 3.2 million acres of temperate rainforest, mountain peaks, glaciers, alpine tundra, muskegs, lakes, rivers, and streams. Time to take a hike and listen to The Beatles... The first tune I learned  to play on guitar was “Horse With No Name”, the second, "Here Comes The Sun” . It’s light and simple and my favorite George Harrison song. The song is in A chromatic-minor with an A tonic major chord.[2] The refrain uses a IV (D chord) to V (E chord) progression (the reverse of that used in "Eight Days a Week" ). The melody in the verse and refrain basically follows the pentatonic scale from E up to C♯ (scale steps 5, 6, 1, 2, 3.Now where is my guitar..oh yea--- Gently weeping. YESterday was cold and rainy But Here Comes The Well -Deserved Sun

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