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Category Archives: Travel

Photographs from the trip

I’ll be spending a good deal of today going through the 963 pictures I took during my Alaskan cruise vacation to see which of them deserve to be uploaded to my Flickr site. Adjustments (to lighting, cropping, etc.) are needed before I can begin to decide about what to include and what to exclude. I [...]

Home at last

I’ve finally returned to my home in Knoxville. I drove home from Lula, GA, to Knoxville, TN, this afternoon and arrived at about 4:00 PM (EDT).  I am in the process of downloading all the pictures I took from the trip to Alaska to my computer and over the next several hours and the next [...]

Homeward bound

Today Carole and I board a train for the trip from Denali National Park to Anchorage.  We’ll spend one night there before returning by plane to Atlanta tomorrow.  While the trip to Alaska has been wonderful, it will be good to get back home again as it always is after a vacation.  Next post here [...]

Cruise to Alaska — Part I

I am writing this from an Internet cafe in the Denali National Park, an awesome site to visit by the way, and this the first entry I’ve been able to make since the 17th of May because Internet access has been both slow and costly.  Aboard ship, the connection speed was 110 Kbps maximum (about twice [...]

Before the Glaciers Melt

On Friday of this week, Carole, my ex-wife, and I will leave Atlanta for Vancouver and then embark from there on a cruise up the inward passage to Anchorage, Alaska. This is a trip that Carole decided last year she wanted to take, and she was kind enough to invite me to accompany her. While [...]