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Alaska is the definition of "grandeur". I’ve visited Alaska on two occasions, once driving around the central part of the state in a motor home for 3 weeks and more recently, on a Glacier Bay cruise. Before the road trip, I was told that you could be near Mt Denali for a week and never see it because of cloud cover. Oddly, I spent six days in Denali National Park and never saw a cloud! We visited Anchorage, Homer, Seward and Valdez and then drove across the state on the Denali Highway to Tok. Being autumn, the colorful seasonal scenery was unbelievable.
Perhaps the most exciting part of that trip was spending 3 days on the Katmai Peninsula photographing the grizzly bears. These are wild and unpredictable animals. I was standing amongst some trees shooting a grizzly in the water when I realized he was charging me (see “Charging Grizzly”). I slowly put my camera down and started walking perpendicular to its path. Fortunately it decided that I wouldn’t be dinner that day. Whew!
A Glacier Bay cruise is an excellent way to see Southeastern Alaska because towns such as Juneau, Ketchikan and Sitka are only accessible by boat or plane.
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