https://youtu.be/ibuYWwo9JU0 Riding the Alaska Railroad's historic Hurricane Turn Train is an authentic Alaskan experience quite unlike anything else in the state. Departing from Talkeetna, about 130 miles south of the entrance to Denali National Park, the Hurricane Turn leaves modernity behind as it travels 57 miles northward through the backcountry…
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Touring Denali’s Wilderness on the Kantishna Experience (VIDEO)
https://youtu.be/DIkat2azOXs Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve is one of the crown jewels of America's national park system: six million acres of virtually untamed land, bisected by one 92-mile-long ribbon of road that passes through low-elevation taiga forest to high alpine tundra. Two-thirds of this area, added by the Alaska National Interest…
Read moreGlacier Point Wilderness Safari (VIDEO)
https://youtu.be/K23VX4SDIkg The first "big excursion" of our 2017 Alaska trip was a guided journey by boat, on foot and by canoe to the Davidson Glacier, a few miles south of Haines. Cheryl found this tour online, and as soon as we read the description along with all the 5-star reviews on…
Read moreOur Visit to Warner Bros. Studios
Last week before we left the Los Angeles area, David and I took time to visit Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank….
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