Alaska

After flying to Anchorage, Alaska, we rented a car and traveled the next day north to Denali NP.  Alaska is huge!  We spent 2 nights at McKinley Park, AK taking a 4.5 mile (4 1/2 hour-shortest with my dumb back!) tour in Denali NP.  We never saw the huge mountain, just clouds (the Alaskan range makes its own weather) but saw moose, rainbows, caribou, a fox and a snowshoe hare traveling the first 15 miles of road in the park allowed by private car before the actual tour. 

On the way south again we saw mountain goats on a cliff on the side of the road and stopped at a Musk Ox farm and toured.  It took us a complete day to travel south again past Anchorage to Moose Pass, AK. where we stayed in a tiny log cabin in the woods.

We had fantastic weather (except in Denali) and on a boat tour in Kenai Fjords NP we saw lots of sea and land wildlife including my first bear (not as a dot or squished on the side of the road) as well as a glacier calving.  We heard and felt the glacier splashing into the sea-very impressive!  The following day we hiked a short distance, visited an aquarium and boarded the ship for the next part of the trip, a cruise on the inland Alaskan Waterway. No pictures here for my camera died.  I must rely on pictures from my daughter-in-law.