TOP 10 PLACES TO VISIT ON AN ALASKA CRUISE The following post is in partnership with Celebrity Cruises. Greetings and thanks for stopping in! I’m coming to you today after having just returned from a short trip to Lake Tahoe where we visited 2 sets of friends. It was what we called our “decompression recovery […]
Hi there! I took a bit of a detour since last telling you about our recent cruise to Alaska. So I thought I’d return to the topic of Alaska and bring you our last Alaska port of call, Skagway. DROPPING ANCHOR IN SKAGWAY ALASKA Of the several towns we visited on our Celebrity Cruise to […]
After having recently returned from a cruise to Alaska where I ate some of the most delicious salmon ever at Taku Glacier Lodge. I was very inspired to come home and make my own favorite recipe for Maple Glazed Salmon with Creamy Herb Sauce. In fact, I prepared it for the recent dinner party I hosted […]
I can truly say without exaggeration that my floatplane excursion over 5 Alaskan glaciers to Taku Glacier Lodge near Juneau, Alaska was one of the most thrilling experiences of my life. My travel agent, Laurel Leidner, had told me when I booked our Celebrity Cruise to Alaska that if I did nothing else while on […]
Our early morning wakeup call came at 5:00 am. The night before the captain of Celebrity Solstice had made it clear to all of the passengers onboard our 7 day cruise to Alaska that although the hour of arrival would be early, we would not want to miss the stunning scenery of Endicott Arm Fjord […]
Hi there! Today we’ll be feasting on crab and exploring a rainforest in Ketchikan, Alaska. After a day at sea, Ketchikan was our first port of call on our recent Celebrity cruise to Alaska. We arrived to wet and foggy weather which threatened to make our day a soggy one. I must admit that going […]
Hello dear friends, thanks for stopping in today. Last weekend my husband had another birthday. Birthdays come around far too quickly just at a time you’d rather stop counting the years. It seems like it was yesterday when we were celebrating Brad at my new/old log cabin. Where does the time go?? A lot of […]
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