The next morning we left for Tok to spend one night. All roads lead to Tok. Then another early morning departure to Destruction Bay in the Yukon Territory. Yes, we had to cross the border again and yes, we had another time change. We experienced more frost heaves, construction and rain all day. We did not get many pictures in this weather except for the road, but we did have a delicious dinner and entertainment at Destruction Bay Lodge. Then an early morning call for traveling to Skagway AK and we had to cross the border and another time change. At this point we haven’t known what time it was since we started especially because of very little darkness. We had a full 1st day which took us by boat, a 50 seat catamaran, The Fjord Express, to Juneau. This was a 3 hour trip one-way and once again the weather was bad but we did manage to see some orca whales and waterfalls on the way. It poured on and off all day and the water was really rough. In Juneau we boarded a bus for a city tour that included time for shopping and lunch at the Red Dog Saloon. The weather was awful and the streets of Juneau were so crowded with people from 2 cruise ships docked in the harbor. The bus then took us to Mendenhall Glacier which was so beautiful but like all the glaciers is slowly receding. We then took the 3 hour return trip but had to skip the whale watching because of weather. We enjoyed the captains stories and had some wonderful salmon chowder on the way.
Next day we had a great time on the White Pass/ Yukon train excursion and took pictures but the clouds prevented good ones. The Railroad was born during the Gold Rush and we went up the mountain and over bridges and through the tunnels that were driven through the mountains so many years ago. It was kind of scary looking down the mountain as we went over the trestles which were on OUR side of the train, but interestingly enough when we got to the top, we had to reverse the back of our seats and change sides with our neighbors across from us so that they were on the scary side going back. So much fun with our group.
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