The first Orthodox Chapel to be built was built by group of fisheries workers who had settled in Umnak on what is now Unalaska Island in the late 1760’s. The original church is shown in the Alaska State Library’s Heritage Collection … Continue reading
Category Archives: The Road Stories
Our magnificent Alaska Adventure of Discovery is, sadly, coming to a close. As we leave Ketchikan on Sunday night, heading towards our cruise in the Inside Passage and ultimately to Vancouver and then home. Our last days aboard Holland America’s … Continue reading
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Ketchikan and area are situated in a “Temperate Rain Forest”, an interesting factoid, given that it is in Alaska. But don’t that fool you! We’ll talk about that a little later. Ketchikan then named itself “Salmon Capital of the World”. Hmm! … Continue reading
Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska and is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site that includes magnificent and historic national parks in both the USA (particularly in Alaska) as well as in Canada in the Yukon and Northwest Territories. … Continue reading
We’ve boarded our Grayline of Alaska coach and as we head west back towards Skagway we see that the country side is almost completely bare and it apparently has been like this since 1896 to 1898 and the situation only worsened … Continue reading
The Trail of ’98 is leads us into Carcross where we hope to gain an appreciation of the hardships encountered by the ‘stampeders’ in their desire and quest for wealth and riches! On our route today, we pass through one US … Continue reading
One of our most popular stories over the years was the short story we posted on the Old Iloilo Aiport at Manduriao in Iloilo City. The one thing that we hadn’t done until recently was to do a story on … Continue reading
Pierre Berton, journalist, historian, media personality was born at Whitehorse, YT 12 July 1920; and died at Toronto, Ont 30 Nov 2004. Berton was among Canada’s best-known writers and was particularly well regarded as a serious popularizer of Canadian history. … Continue reading
The Skagway area was originally inhabited by the Tlingit and its name derives from the Tlingit word skagua, meaning “place where the north wind blows.” The town sits at the head of the Lynn Canal, the northernmost fjord of Southeast Alaska’s … Continue reading
Juneau Alaska, was to be one of our first stops out of Vancouver with visits to Tracy Arm Fjord and the Sawyer Glacier “on the road” to Juneau. Juneau is the State Capital of Alaska. It has been the capital of Alaska … Continue reading