Mike & Carol's Vacation 2007

From here we went to Wi. and I will put up some pictures from Wisconsin where we spend most of the summers. Thanks for riding along with us.

Panarama made up of four photos

Little Big Horn & Custards last stand.

Location of the Indian camp

Montana blue Skys 6/08/2007

Statue of Our Lady in the Mountains.

More Beautiful Montana Mountains

Resturant built over a river

On route from Washington to Wisconsin 6/07/2007

Wanupum Dam and a monument to wild horses.

Some of you know that I am a Shriner. Carol & I stoped in Spokan Wash. to see the Shriners childrens hospital there.

Carved Merry go round. 6/07/2007

A Day in Seattle 6/06/2007

Run away eraser

Chain Gang.

Seattle Aquarium

Touring the undergroung city of Seattle.

Totem pole in a park.

An origional crapper 6/06/2007

Got back on the Mainland on June 5th. and stayed in Seattle for a few days.

Tom & Okie's home is in the center of this picture 6/05/2007

Leaving victoria By ferry.
Back on the Mainland 6/05/2007

Seahawks Stadium 6/05/2007 Shot from the Space Needle

From the top of the space needle. 6/05/2007

A Few shots of the space needle.6/05/2007

Composit picture of seattle.6/05/2007

Okie and Carol looking at a set of drums that are like the ones that okie played in the Royal Canadian Army

Heritage Acres in Saanichton BC 6/3

Tom & Okie's Beautiful home on Victoria BC 6/3

Leaving Victoria to Salt Spring Island 6/2

View from Ferry 6/2

Left High & Dry 6/2

Lunch & Seight seeing on Salt Spring Island 6/2

Olympic National Park viewed from Victoria BC 6/2

Off the ship land in Vancover BC 6/1

Inside Passage (cruising) 5/31

"CLICK ON ANY PICTURE TO ENLARGE"

Inside Passage scenery 5/31

The kitchen staff

Our Formal Dining table 5/31

Another good show

Most of the crew

CRUISE is done. Last night on the ship 5/31

Ketchikan 5/30

Leaving Ketchikan 5/30

Dinning room

Stage shows were very colorful 5/30

Whole cast 5/30

Back in our room 5/30

Icy Straights 5/29

Our Ship anchored. 5/29

Whale watching cruising to the Point Adolphus. Click on picture to Enlarge it.Only day of rain we had on the trip. 5/29

Atrium

Another show

Back in our room 5/29

Skagway 5/28

There is a jewelry shop every 25 ft.5/28

Masonic Lodge 5/28

Red Onion bar in Skagway 5/28

Bus trip to Yukon Pass & White Pass 5/28

Back to the boat 5/28

Main Lobby 5/28

Great show 5/28

Leaving Skagway 5/28

Day of rest in Juneau 5/27

Lobby and stage show 5/27

View from the Ship 5/26

Icy Straights and Glacier Bay. Some of the chunks of ice were the size of a small house. 2/3 of the ice burg is below the water line.

5/25 Fairbanks air to Anchorage bus to Seward.

5/25 Took plane from Fairbanks to Anchorage. Our plane was grounded so 68 of us spent 5-6 hours waiting for a flight. The boat in Seward had to delay the cruze for about an hour.

Mt. McKinley from the air 5/25

Landing in Anchorage. 5/25

Buss ride from Anchorage to Seward Ak.

loading at the Seward dock

Paddle Boat ride Fairbanks ,Ak 5/24

Landing on the river

Log home burned last week

Fixer uper with river rights
Comes with it's own boat

Mushers camp, exercising dogs

Traditional Alaska Village 5/24

Reindeer or Carabou 5/24

All hand made 5/24

Alaska pipeline

An evening staage show 5/24

Alaska State Bird 5/24

Up earlyand a trip to Denali Park. 5/23

Mount McKinley or Denali in Alaska is the highest mountain peak in North America, at a height of approximately 20,320 feet (6,194 m). It is the centerpiece of Denali National Park.

Dall Sheep (Ovis dalli dalli) inhabit the mountain ranges of Alaska. Dall sheep are found in relatively dry country and frequent a special combination of open alpine ridges, meadows, and steep slopes with extremely rugged "escape terrain" in the immediate vicinity. They use the ridges, meadows, and steep slopes for feeding and resting. When danger approaches they flee to the rocks and crags to elude pursuers. They are generally high country animals but sometimes occur in rocky gorges below timberline in Alaska.
Male Dall sheep are called rams. They are distinguished by massive curling horns. The females, called ewes, have shorter, more slender, slightly curved horns. Rams resemble ewes until they are about 3 years old. After that, continued horn growth makes them easily recognizable. Horns grow steadily during spring, summer, and early fall. In late fall or winter horn growth slows and eventually ceases. 5/23

Mount McKinley has a larger bulk and rise than Mount Everest. Even though the summit of Everest is about 9,000 feet (2,700 m) higher as measured from sea level, its base sits on the Tibetan Plateau at about 17,000 feet (5,200 m), giving it a real vertical rise of little more than 12,000 feet (3,700 m). The base of Mount McKinley is roughly a 2,000 foot plateau, giving it an actual rise of 18,000 feet (5,500 m).5/23

5/23

We spot a Moose 5/23

He spots us

Looks back for young one

Here I am

Let's go

Time for a good meal and some fun 5/23

The end of another great day 5/23

Talkeetna to Denali Park train ride 5/22

Our tour Director "Roberta"

Up early in the morning

Waiting for the train

Here it comes

Ahh time to relax

Scenery taken from the train

Only one track most of the way so trains have to pass on a designated strip

Arriving in Danali Park 5/22

View of denali Lodge from a distance 5/22

View from resturant balcony at the Denali lodge 5/22

Jeff Kings home 5/22

The cost of one dog from his kennel $12,000

Jeff King 3 time IDITAROD winner

Some of the 75 doges that he raises on an exersizing rack

Demonstration of the cold suit he wares

I'm glad I live in AZ

Trying one out for size

Took train from Anchorage today and left for Talkeetna Ak. 5/21

Mountains start to grow everyware you look 5/21

Train snakes it's way through some very ruff country

Starting point of the IDITAROD race 5/21

"Wasilla?" It's "all I saw" spelled backwards!

On our raft ride in Talkeetna the weather was very warm. 5/21

Beaver have been chewing on these trees 5/21

Carol found moose tracks at least we eat meat tonight 5/21

Moose & Fox tracks

One of two bears we saw,check the claws. 5/21

Town of Talkeetna Alaska 5/21

Red Hat Ladies have made it to Alaska

View from our room in the Grande Denali Lodge

Carol talking to our tour director (Roberta)in the lobby of our hotel.

Took a boat ride

Damage done by the spring thaw, done each year.

A moose and two young ones

Snow on the banks of the river

A trappers camp

An indian leanto

A safe place to put food

Trappers cabin

Sod roof

Carol looking at furs

Mt. McKinley has a cloud cap on.

These were taken around 11:30pm

Our room in Anchorage with a great view and a picture of us in a bar for some food. Celebrating my birthday. 5/20

Landing in Anchorage Ak 5/20.

Flying over the Mountains on our way North. 5/20

Leaving Seattle and flying to Anchorage Ak. 5/20

Leaving Vancover BC & Landing in Seattle Wa. 5/20

On our rip to Vancover by ferry we were entertained by a high school band that was on tour 5/19

Tom and Bernice Horn show us around Victoria BC 5/18

A view from their sitting room

A beautiful court yard

loading up for the tour

The end of a wonderfull day

Back from Alaska

Hi to all watching the blog. I have not sat down at a computer for over 12 days and that is hard for some of you who know me to believe but I got a few pictures to share with all of you so be patient and stay tuned. We got back to Victoria BC today 6/01 and it will take me a few days to go through the pictures that I shot. We are having a great time and we are getting tired of living out of our suitcases. 30 days today but who's counting. The trip makes it all worth while. We have met some wonderful people and saw a lot of our Great Nation on our venture.We have a lot to be thankful for.

Mike & Carol

Butchart Gardens May 17th. Victoria BC

Butterfly Gardens May 17th. Victoria BC

May 16th.

Getting ready to dock and load. At the Horns I picked up a wireless internet connection so I will beable to send a few more days of pictures

Leaving Washington behind us.

About an hour across, Carol reads & I take pictures.

Many planes with pontoons.

Our car takes a rest on the trip.

We made it VICTORIA BC

May 15th. 2007

Greetings To All,

This will be the last time you will be hearing from us, till we return from Alaska.
At present, we are in Port Angeles, we are not taking our lap top with us to Alaska!
All the way from the desert up the Pacific Coast we have had wonderful weather, beautiful sites, some much more than we expected.
We would have liked to have spent more time at some places, but with time constraints, it just wasn’t possible.
We will be house guest of Tom and Bernice Horn in BC, Vancouver, and will do site seeing of Vancouver with the Horn’s, and certainly look forward to their generous hospitality.
We hope those of you who have been following our trip on the blog site have enjoyed Mike’s picture’s, as we our certainly enjoying our trip together! We sure do miss all of you back home, stay safe, cool and healthy, we will think of you all this summer

Mike & Carol

Early AM Ferry is leaving for Victoria BC

Our Room windows

Our Motel the Port Angeles inn

With help from Photoshop

Removed log across Waterfall

Spring runoff

Wondering what we were doing here

Olympic National Park

Ferry back from Victoria BC

West side of Washington Peninsula ( Olympic National park) 5/13

Time to get on the road again.

Beautiful views

Moss does not hurt the Host plant.

On side of road

Friendly Chat with the local Bear (Yogi's Brother)

View from our motel room front door in Port Angeles Wa.

View from our rear window can see Ferry we will use on wed.

We will be here two days then Ferry to B.C. To our good friends Tom & Okie Horn

Driving through Oregon

Looking towards Wassington from Oregon

In Washington looking back at Oregon across Columbia River

Louis & Clark info center

Time For Bed

Oregon Coast May 12th.

Along the Coast of Oregon May 11th.

Driving up the California Coast

Lots of Red Woods & Lots of Ocean

San Francisco Sights

Fog rolling in the Bay

Lombard St. worlds crookedest Street

San Francisco's Tallest Building

Paintings on a wall

Carol on the right overlooking the Bay

"Sausalito"

Pier 39 & Fisherman's Wharf

Alcatraz

"Muir Woods" National Park

The Golden Gate Bridge

San Francisco

Giant Sequia trees

Reminded us of the Smoky Mts.

El Capitan

Was cold and rainy all day

Yosemite Falls

Bridal Vail up close

River flow at fast & slow shutter speed

El Capitan & Bridal vail Falls

Bridal Vail Falls

Powerhouse "Macasin CA."

Temperature was 32 degrees.

Carol takes a break from Knitting

A Winter Wonderland !

Kit carson Pass. North of Yosemite Park.

Kit Carson Pass which was our last hope to get through to the West of the Mountain range. Elevation is 8,484ft.

Sierra Mt. Range. Mt. Morgan is the tallest peak here at 12,748 ft.

The road that we were planning to take to take to Yosemite was closed and we had to take an alternate route which was around 375 total miles north around these mountains.