Above All---Alaska!Adventure to the Last Frontier
It's A Family Thing
We are captivated by Alaska’s unequaled beauty, freedom, and mystique. Our son and his family moved to Anchorage fifteen years ago. Our middle daughter and her family lived there for eight years, and our youngest daughter is there now as well. The lure of family time, and the lure of Alaska itself, has resulted in more than twenty trips from our home in Minnesota to almost every corner of Alaska. We love to share Alaskan adventures with anyone we can coerce into a trip. We took my parents on a two week road tour that included driving to Anchorage, Denali, Fairbanks, North Pole, Valdez, Seward, Homer and places in between. My father has since passed away, but during his final illness he kept two photos within sight—one of his prize King Salmon and one of a huge grizzly bear that was fishing right across the river from him. Share Alaska with FriendsRecently we took friends with us for a nine day RV vacation. We drove the highways to fishing and whale-watching in Seward. We hiked to Exit Glacier. Our adventure took us to Denali for a wildlife tour and to Talkeetna for ice cream. 
Oh the Places You Can Go!Winter trips have included seeing the mushers and their teams start out on the Iditarod, admiring ice carvings during the world ice carving competition and standing in the snow at night to watch the aurora shimmer and flame over the landscape.We have been to most of the towns and cities that are reachable by road in southeast Alaska, have flown by bush plane to fishing lodges, viewed the bears at Katmai and shivered in summer in Barrow and Point Hope. Moose have shown themselves in the city and in the wilderness. Dall sheep cling to rocky crags along the highway. Eagles soar above the landscape. Once, in a bush plane, we flew directly above an eagle! Bring Alaska Home With YouAlaskan artists and authors are well represented in our home décor and on our bookshelves. Native cultures continue to be explored. And the “taste of Alaska” is an everyday part of life as we savor the salmon, halibut, wild berries and other treats that come home with us from every trip.We can hardly wait until it is time to go again! There is still so much to see and do.
“There’s a land—oh it beckons, and I want to go back—and I will!” Return to Travel Advice
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