Tim & Denise Tiner Travels: 2016 Alaska Cruise

Today is July 29th....Friday. We woke up in port at Skagway, Alaska. Amazing how small it is! Since we are in the states, we had cell service and immediately we started getting a stream of texts from the kids at home. The news was not good as Karlie's new baby was in the NICU with respiratory problems. This was and is very concerning to us. So immediately we went up top on deck, where it was a bit cold to get breakfast and call Karlie. It was good to hear her voice and share our concerns. We had to go get ready to go on our 7 hour tour into the Yukon territories.

At 9:00 AM, we met and had a quick prayer on behalf of Karlie and Lorenzo. Then we were off to find our tour guide. We had told everyone to HAVE THEIR PASSPORTS many times. But naturally, we get off the boat, and there is one person (name to not be said) that did not have their passport. So off that person went back to the boat while others hit the bathrooms for one last time. Some people were not feeling well...so hitting the bathroom took a LONG time.

Finally we were off! The drive was beautiful with some very distinct scenery. Lots of canyon driving. We climbed up into the clouds over a summit and into the they Yiukon territories. We saw a ton of lakes with one lake that actually stretched 60 miles in length. At one point, we stopped to view something and our guide spotted some goats with his spotting scope. I was amazed that he found them. Also, we saw a car or two stopped and there on the side of the road was a young bear. Our driver, Tom, thought the bear was about 1.5 years old.

Later on, we stopped at a mushing post where some ladies had a ton of dogs that pulled sleds. Our family, being animal lovers, had to stopped. There, we saw many dogs ranging from mature pulling dogs to week old pups. WE learned about dogs that pull sleds there. A few of us paid the money to have the dogs pull an ATV for a mile and a bit. It was a nice stop.

We then headed on to Carcrosse (used to be Caribou Crossing) where we got some bakery goods there and walked around the cool town. From there we drove a bit further to see the Carcross desert and then on to our final destination before turning back...Emerald Lake. This lake was amazingly green due to the mud in the lake. It was pretty neat.

It was a fun day just driving around seeing the country side. We did see a few Eagles which was pretty cool.

We arrived back to the boat around 4:45 PM where we called Karlie to check in. WE learned that Lorenzo has some type of bacteria thing going on and will be in the. hospital for one week. Crazy.

Another day in the books.

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