As some of you are aware, Michael and I took three weeks vacation and went to Alaska. We spent just over a week hanging out with our friend Tania from Fairbanks, and were joined by Neurondoc and her family.

Then Tania went home while the five of us went on a cruise down the Inside Passage, viewing glaciers and stopping at port cities.

Then we spent two days (one night) in Vancouver, where we met Jeri, and then spent several days in Seattle.

If you were wondering why I hadn’t been around much, that’s why.

The trip was amazing. I do not have superlatives enough to describe it.

I do, however, have several thousand pictures.

Never fear, I will not subject you to that many pictures. I’m planning on posting several of my favorite pictures every day, and if I feel so motivated, telling you a bit about that area we saw. You can also click through to Flickr to see more pictures there, but I am being aggressive in culling pictures, and putting up only ones that I think best represent wherever we were visiting.

Then I plan to go through I work through the shots I took for myself (things I found interesting/fascinating) and only then will I allow myself to go through all the flower pictures.

Because I took a LOT of plant pictures. The botany of Alaska is not just different from what I am used to here in West Virginia, but it differed from region to region, often significantly.

If you have any questions about where we went and what we did, please feel free to ask.

Alaska is definitely a place everyone should visit–and should do so while they are young enough to get out and hike and see places.