Our Excellent Adventures

What can you do with only 88 hours to go before departing to the Land of the Midnight Sun? I want to be careful not to peak to early. I could easily be packed and just sit in the driver’s seat for 87 hours but the neighbor’s would talk . . .

• Still have to clean up my fishing gear. I am carrying some light tackle to hopefully catch some trout for lunch along the way. The big fish I’ll just buy and say I caught it.
• No languages to practice. The Rosetta Stone didn’t have any course for the tribal languages of the Yukon or Alaska.
• A friend from one of the Sprinter forums was “nice” enough to send me a link to the newspaper talking about this could be Alaska’s coldest summer ( http://www.adn.com/life/story/473786.html ). Thanks a lot! Just when I was picking out which shorts to wear! Hey, it will just make for better stories around the campfire (barbecue) when we get back.
• I have also been following (from their forum) some of the Sportsmobile gang that are up north. Everyone is having a blast!
• Do you want to see what life is like on the ferry? Go here and you can watch some short videos.
• Twiddle di dee, twiddle de dum . . .
• Oh yes, my wife has been busy getting all her work done so she can leave for a month so she hasn’t packed anything. Lucky her! She’ll get all the excitement on Tuesday night!
• I am still trying to figure out how much wine, gin, etc. I can carry through Canada. I hate the metric system!
• I am sure the price of diesel fuel will drop $2 or $3 dollars a gallon on September 1 - about when we are do back.
• I am going to buy mukluks for all the grand-kids - if they still make them in Alaska and not China.

Cocktail time.

The new 2008 edition of the Great Alaskan TourSaver is a littler larger than pocket size and is a win/win for visitors to Alaksa and Special Olympics Alaska.

You’ll find the book has more than 140 2-for-1 offers on accommodations (hotels and camping), fishing trips, flight-seeing, and more. It covers the whole state and splits Alaska up into five sections: Southcentral Alaska; Interior and Far North; Inside passage and Western Alaska.

The book costs $99.95. But you may be able to find a bargan on line. And if you use just one coupon you have recouped the entire cost of the book.

Some of the 2-for-1 offers include:

• Alaska Rail Tours between Anchorage and Denali National Park.
• Accommodations at Denali National Park.
• Denali Flight seeing with glacier landing.
• Denali Backcountry Jeep Safari.
• Kenai Fjords National Park glacier cruise.
• Glacier Bay National Park glacier cruise.
• Charter fishing for salmon and halibut in Seward, Kodiak and on the
  Kenai River.
• Admission to Alaska Native Heritage Center, Alaska Sealife Center
  and Alaska Raptor Center.
• Raft and Jet-boat adventures

For me the book presented many ideas of things to do I hadn’t know about. Just looking at the coupons shouts, “Adventure, adventure.”

You can find information here www.toursaver.com.