Reservations starting to be made

On Tuesday, 07/28/2009, Judy and I traveled to Traverse City to meet with our travel agent Alana. We reviewed with her our requested changes to her initial itinerary that she made from our February meeting. we also gave her some guidelines as to when the four of us will share a room as when we want separate room - pretty much based upon a cost of $140 / night or higher then we will share a room.

We also gave her some towns which we wanted to remove from our itinerary, such as Sitka and Valdeze, and some towns that we wanted added, such as Palmer. Also removed were some flight-seeing tours, with the option of adding some later. We also added a few days in each of the major towns, Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau.

One question ferry schedule was cleared up - the ferry from Port Hardy to Prince Rupert was listed as only a 3 hour trip on her initial itinerary, and we were to take the 5:00 a.m. ferry the following morning. I found that it was really a 15 hour trip arriving at about 10:30 p.m. in Prince Rupert. We requested at lease one full day in Prince Rupert as we did not want to get in late and leave early.

The ferry schedule will not be available until around October so the dates for the Inside passage are still not firm. A few extra days in Juneau will be built in for now to allow for a day or two change in the ferry schedule from last years schedule.

Alana will start the intial motel reservations for the mainland shortly.

Stay tuned.