Reindeer hot dogs!

I nearly forgot to mention my best new junk food discovery in years—and the highlight of land-based Alaskan cuisine–reindeer hot dogs.  (Also reindeer sausage, which tasted exactly the same to me).  I discovered them first at the concession stand at the Alaska SeaLife Center and later at the concession in Denali National Park.  Boy were [...]

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Sea life after the Exxon Valdez

  Before leaving Seward, after boarding our tour bus and meeting up with the guide and passengers for our land tour, we took a short drive to the Alaska SeaLife Center, where we saw the birds, water mammals, and fish of Alaska.   Seward is roughly 100 miles by sea from Bligh Reef—the site where the Exxon [...]

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Disembarking in Seward

Our cruise ended at Seward.  The official docking time was 3 a.m., but, mercifully, I wasn’t required to be awake to witness it.  Passengers were assigned a disembarkation time based on where they were headed, and we were lucky enough to be in the last group to leave the ship, at 9:20 a.m.  Seward was [...]

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