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Day 195: It starts!

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

There are sunspots on the Sun! ** It took about an hour and a quarter to get from the start to Totality. It was getting darker as we approached Totality! Almost there!!! Watching for the shadow moving towards us on the valley floor.  It was too smokey to see much.  I do have a video […]

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Day 194: getting ready

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Our neighbor took our photo for posterity and the Dailylife Wife. Toots took this one of me. She also noted that there was a strict no fire policy in effect.  It was dry as a bone there! Everyone is lining up and starting to watch.  We found out spot about an hour and a half […]

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Day 193, or Chasing an Eclipse!

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Toots and I left Great Falls on Sunday evening, and spent the night in one of the last rooms in Butte, MT.  We were on our way to Idaho to see the Total Solar Eclipse.  We would have stayed in Dillon, 60 miles closer to Idaho, but the only room I found there was priced […]

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Day 189

Monday, August 14, 2017

The Dailylife Wife was cutting a red pepper for an ingredient in tonight’s dinner… Where the heck was this three weeks ago?  The theme for the State Fair photography this year was red. <<sigh>>  All photos were from my cellphone, BTW. And the dinner was: Italian Zucchini Boats!  Pretty good, too.  And low carb…{!-{P ~Curtis […]

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Day 173, June 10th, part 1!

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

A bit of liquid refreshment before our day. Man, did they ever have HOT coffee! In Hoonan, or Icy Straight, we got off the ship to go on a whale watching tour. There were lots of eagles and fun boats to see on the ride to our tour. *** This is the municipal dock where […]

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Day 172, June 9th, part 2!

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

A few photos from the Dailylife Wife, who seems to have taken more while we were in Juneau… The Author.   The Dailylife Wife. A few sights in Juneau. * * The Red Dog Saloon! Meanwhile, back on the ship… A few of our route so far.  Juneau, of course, isn’t listed. A bug infestation […]

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Day 171, June 9th, part 1!

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Another beautiful day on the Amsterdam!  And since I had cell service, a pretty useless map of our location… Well, the beautiful day part was a little optimistic. A view off the starboard rail of the other ships docked. And off the stern. Here is the Dailylife Wife contemplating Juneau. As we disembark to tootle […]

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Day 162, June 8th, part 4

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

On our way to Tracy Arm, the Captain of the Amsterdam decided there was too much ice flowing out of that fjord, so we do not turn north into Tracy Arm, but south to Dawes Glacier at the end of Endicott Arm.  Here you can see a large glacier hanging on the mountain. And our first […]

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Day 157, June

Thursday, June 22, 2017

A day at sea.  This a general map showing our destinations: Ketchikan, Tracy Arm, Anchorage, with a few others thrown in: Juneau, Icy Straight, Homer, Kodiak, Hubbard Glacier, and Victoria.  This is from the in-stateroom television.  It has a limited selection, but one of the channels is ship and trip stats like this. We are […]

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Day 156, June 6th

Thursday, June 22, 2017

The nerve racking drive to the Port!  And a raised drawbridge.  Okay, it was only nerve-racking because I wasn’t the one driving in such heavy traffic.  The crack across the less-than-two-week-old windshield is compliments of some driver on the Interstate. Up the Alaskan Way along Seattle’s waterfront.  A two cellphone photo panorama!  Click twice to […]

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