Juneau in a day. . .
Step 1 - Rent a car from rentawreck. a 92 mazda with 236,000 miles. It makes some strange noises, but it will get you around.
Step 2 - Drive to Mendenhall glacier and dodge the tour buses long enough to get a silent moment in front of the big blue ice. It's the most visited glacier in the world. Imagine it surging forward instead of retreating and watch the tour buses tumble in ice.
Step 3 - drive 9 miles past the Ferry Dock (15 miles from the end of the road) to the Shrine of St. Thereasa. Find the little lookout behind station of the cross #2 and stare into the face of God. I've never found such a place to pray. Finish the stations and walk through the prayer labrynth. By the time you get to the center, you'll be ready to listen and pray. Leave and offering there in the center.
Step 4 - Take another look at the glacier from the Chapel on the hill.
Step 5 - Watch the Salmon run up the 450 ladder at the Hatchery. Marvel at how a fish after swimming 2000 miles away smells its way back to the place it was born in order to spawn and die. Learn to tell the difference between the Chums, Sockeyes, Kings, Silvers, and Pinks.
Step 6 - Find the State Museum and take a quick walk-through. There are two great artists on display there that really capute the spirit of everything you've seen so far. A photographer and a water-color artist. Realize that Alaska has the only US soil to every have been occupied by a enemy since the war of 1812.
Step 6 - Pick your way through Juneau up the ravine to the Last Chance gold mine museum. Think about the power required to turn on the giant motor that runs the compressors. Feel the 44 degree air rush up from a mine entrance. Get pretty wet trying to take a picture of the inside of the mine through the steel grate. The rain is a little anoying but it's created magnificent waterfalls in the last change canyon.
Step 7 - By now, you've long missed lunch, so move right on in to supper. Drive downtown and eat along the water watching the cruise boats re-load. Force yourself to keep eating fish and remember that the beef is fresh and the fish in frozen in Illinois.
Step 8 - The sky has cleared a bit since this morning, so drive back by the Mendenhall Glacier. You'll pretty much have it to yourself now. After dark, it's a little creepy up there to turn around just before to sky goes dark.
Step 1 - Rent a car from rentawreck. a 92 mazda with 236,000 miles. It makes some strange noises, but it will get you around.
Step 2 - Drive to Mendenhall glacier and dodge the tour buses long enough to get a silent moment in front of the big blue ice. It's the most visited glacier in the world. Imagine it surging forward instead of retreating and watch the tour buses tumble in ice.
Step 3 - drive 9 miles past the Ferry Dock (15 miles from the end of the road) to the Shrine of St. Thereasa. Find the little lookout behind station of the cross #2 and stare into the face of God. I've never found such a place to pray. Finish the stations and walk through the prayer labrynth. By the time you get to the center, you'll be ready to listen and pray. Leave and offering there in the center.
Step 4 - Take another look at the glacier from the Chapel on the hill.
Step 5 - Watch the Salmon run up the 450 ladder at the Hatchery. Marvel at how a fish after swimming 2000 miles away smells its way back to the place it was born in order to spawn and die. Learn to tell the difference between the Chums, Sockeyes, Kings, Silvers, and Pinks.
Step 6 - Find the State Museum and take a quick walk-through. There are two great artists on display there that really capute the spirit of everything you've seen so far. A photographer and a water-color artist. Realize that Alaska has the only US soil to every have been occupied by a enemy since the war of 1812.
Step 6 - Pick your way through Juneau up the ravine to the Last Chance gold mine museum. Think about the power required to turn on the giant motor that runs the compressors. Feel the 44 degree air rush up from a mine entrance. Get pretty wet trying to take a picture of the inside of the mine through the steel grate. The rain is a little anoying but it's created magnificent waterfalls in the last change canyon.
Step 7 - By now, you've long missed lunch, so move right on in to supper. Drive downtown and eat along the water watching the cruise boats re-load. Force yourself to keep eating fish and remember that the beef is fresh and the fish in frozen in Illinois.
Step 8 - The sky has cleared a bit since this morning, so drive back by the Mendenhall Glacier. You'll pretty much have it to yourself now. After dark, it's a little creepy up there to turn around just before to sky goes dark.
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