Majority of Reservations Made

After all the discussions and planning, our Alaska Adventure is now becoming real. Between Thursday and Friday, Oct. 15 & 16, 2009, the majority of the motel and ferry reservations have been made as well as some of the tours. Although most of the motel reservations were made with a credit card guarantee, several motels, the Alaska Marine Highway System and several of the boat cruise / tours required payment when the reservations were made. There are a few which cannot be made until mid-January 2010.

Of course the reservations I am describing above are only for Vancouver, north through Alaska, and the return travel back through the Yukon and Skagway. This will be about 35 days of our travels. I am responsible for the needed reservations for our trip from home to Vancouver, and from Skagway to home. The trip from home to Vancouver is scheduled for 5 days (we may add an extra day before we leave the USA). The trip from Skagway, through the Canadian Rockies (Banff, Jasper), and back home is currently estimated at 14 days, with a few days in the Canadian Rockies already included. The reservations that I need to make can wait until next April or so.