Not-Quite-Country Girl

One last post about Alaska, before I pack my trip photos away...just a few tidbits that hit me and thought I'd share...

Fairbanks, Alaska was our final destination before heading back to Indiana. Since our flight didn't leave until 9:30 pm, Kim and I had a whole day to fill and weren't quite sure how we were going to do that. 

Bumming around a city all day isn't our cup of tea and we couldn't find any excursions that really excited us, so we decided to just rent a car for the day and see where it took us.

Hang in there with me, friends...just a couple more days and I'll be through my Alaska posts and onto other more mundane stuff.  Takes awhile to wade through a couple thousand photos....

So....we left the Denali area on a rainy morning and headed north to Fairbanks, our final destination of the trip.  After several hours on the coach, we arrived at our first excursion in the area...a Chena River cruise aboard the sternwheeler Riverboat Discovery.

We knew it was gotta be a great day when a rainbow greeted us just as our bus drove into Denali National Park.

Our driver picked us up the next morning for a fun morning outing!

What an incredible week we spent cruising Alaska's Inside Passage on the Coral Princess!

If you've seen enough photos of majestic snow-covered mountains and powerful, age-old glaciers to last you awhile, you may need to skip over this post...more of the above (I personally could not get enough of them...hence my hundreds of glacier photos....), with a few adorable critters thrown in for fun.

Day #5 on the Coral Princess was spent cruising and viewing the spectacular landscapes of Glacier Bay National Park.

Just outside the village of Carcross, Yukon, Canada was one of the most surprising sights (and sites!) of the day.

We awoke on Day #4 of our Alaska cruise in the small, seaside port of Skagway...a mighty huge ship in a tiny little dock.