Natural A/C in Alaska – June 26 to July 4, 2007

Our first vacation this year was the Northeast so this trip will be the far Northwest, Alaska. We have a nonstop on Continental to Anchorage (about 8 hrs) where we spend our first night and then fly to Fairbanks where we pick up a rental car and drive to Denali National Park. We have an 8-hour tour bus ride in the park to Fish Creek that affords outstanding views of Mt. McKinley, the Alaska Range and excellent wildlife viewing opportunities. Wednesday night will be spent at the Denali Lakeview Inn in Healy.

After a driving tour of the area it is back to Fairbanks and gold mines, paddleboat trips and other tourist fun. Friday evening, we fly to Anchorage and then drive to Seward on the Kenai Peninsula on Saturday. On Sunday, we have a 9.5-hour Northwestern Fjord Tour booked in the Kenai Fjords National Park. This boat ride visits magnificent Northwestern Fjord, home to three amazing tidewater glaciers and numerous alpine glaciers.

We return to Anchorage on Monday evening and catch our nonstop flight back home on Tuesday night. This gets us home at 8 am to celebrate the 4th of July.