{"id":152,"date":"2007-06-03T16:39:42","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T21:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2007-06-03T16:39:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T21:39:42","slug":"north-to-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"North to Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a few days Jan and I will be heading off to Alaska for an extended trip.  We&#8217;ve been planning this for a long while and we&#8217;re really psyched about it. The bags are nearly all packed and all the arrangements are set (I think).  As long as the airlines cooperate we are good to go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/aktripmap.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to enlarge\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/aktripmap.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"Click to enlarge\" alt=\"Click to enlarge\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a map of our trip, not counting the air travel to and from.  I hope that we will have Internet access at many of the stops  and I will be able to blog in (almost) real-time and with photos too.<\/p>\n<p>This is a short list of some of what we will be doing.  We fly to Bellingham WA and catch a ferry which takes us to Juneau.  We spend a couple of days there, then another ferry to Whittier where we take a cruise on Prince William Sound.  From Whittier it&#8217;s a train ride to Anchorage where we stay another couple of days and pick up a rental car.  Next it&#8217;s off to Copper Center and on to Fairbanks.  From Fairbanks we fly up to Prudhoe Bay, <em>north of the Arctic Circle<\/em>.  Then back to Fairbanks by bus.   From there it&#8217;s on to Denali National Park with a white-water raft trip plus a bus tour of the Kantishna Wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>More adventures include a Jet Boat ride at Talkeetna.  Then on to Seward and a cruise through the Kanai Fjords and on to Homer.  After Homer it&#8217;s back to Anchorage for our return flight. Twenty four days all together &#8211; can you say <strong>BUSY ?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a few days Jan and I will be heading off to Alaska for an extended trip. We&#8217;ve been planning this for a long while and we&#8217;re really psyched about it. The bags are nearly all packed and all the arrangements are set (I think). As long as the airlines cooperate we are good to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}