I am sitting onboard Radiance of the Seas sailing thought the Alaska morning. Wish I could load some pictures, but alas, nature is so powerful here all machinery is helpless. My new camera is shy, my cell phones won’t send pictures and I can barely tweet! It’s truly living in the moment! I just found this computer onboard with some time to spare before 10:00 am meeting.
Our tour guide for the previous four days on land was one incredible German woman who has lived in raw Alaska for a long time. She is about 36 years old, lives in a cabin with no electricity, and has to chop her fire wood and haul water to her cabin which has no lock on the door. She volunteers to help the mushers for the Iditarod every year, has biked not only the Iditarod trail, but 4,000 Alaska miles. She is from another time and place. As a farewell gift I bought her a book titled “Gold Rush Women.” We all signed it and I think she will enjoy reading it on the long winter nights. She was good friends with Susan Butcher, the only women to win the Iditarod three times in a row. The Iditarod is up there in world class races with the Tour de France. It’s an 1,159 miile dog sled race.
We are blessed with so 65 beautiful alcoholics on this trip! Two women have only two months of sobriety each and they will get an earful from our gang! Many volunteered to be sponsors at sea and all are willing to carry the message any time of day or night wherever we are.
Today we cruise Hubbard Glacier and have a fancy black tie dinner tonight. Ain’t life grand?