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Animated Map of Ketchikan to Icy Strait Point

Alaska 2024 - Day 10 Icy Strait Point

18 August 2024 The scenery heading into Icy Strait Point was spectacular. We didn't pull up to the pier until 11:00 AM, so we had a relaxed morning watching the mountains, valleys, and islands roll by as we approached port and preparing for our Whale and Marine

Vancouver to Ketchikan Animated Map

Alaska 2024 - Day 9 Ketchikcan

17 August 2024 We continued through the Inside Passage arriving in Ketchikan at 8:00 on the morning. The weather was outstanding for our Misty Fjords and Wilderness Explorer high speed jet boat tour of some of the natural wonders surrounding Ketchikan! Our boat journey started out early soon after

Photo of Inside Passage sunset.

Alaska 2024 - Day 8 Inside Passage

16 August 2024 Day 8 found us cruising the Inside Passage again. Wait, didn't we just do this the day before last? Yup. We set sail for another trip though the Inside Passage around 6:00 PM on the 15th and were well on our way up by

Wrangell to Vancouver via Inside Passage animated map

Alaska 2024 - Day 7 Vancouver

15 August 2024 After another night of smooth sailing through the Inside Passage, we arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We were pier side at the Canada Place Cruise Ship Terminal in downtown Vancouver. The sky was kind of grey when we moored in the morning, but it wasn'

Alaska 2024 - Day 6 Inside Passage

Alaska 2024 - Day 6 Inside Passage

14 August 2024 No map today, but a photo from our journey through the Inside Passage. The map will be back when we reach our next port. This was an at sea day, while transiting from Wrangell to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The passengers and the crew were able to

Alaska 2024 - Day 5 Wrangell

Alaska 2024 - Day 5 Wrangell

13 August 2024 We headed out into the North Pacific, then through Sumner Strait, arriving at Wrangell, at 8:00 a.m. Seas were calm with swells that nicely meshed with the size of our ship to provide a slow, gentle up and down motion while we were in the

Alaska 2024 - Day 4 Sitka

Alaska 2024 - Day 4 Sitka

Monday, 12 August 2024 Heading down Chilkoot Inlet, with a jog to starboard, we headed out to the open North Pacific for our trip to Sitka. There was a bit more motion than on previous days as we were outside the 12 nautical mile limit and away from shore for

Alaska 2024 - Day 3 Haines

Alaska 2024 - Day 3 Haines

Sunday, 11 August 2024 We navigated the Alaska Marine Highway up to Chilkoot Inlet, arriving in Haines at 8:00 a.m. We were kind of inland, protected by mountains and land the whole journey, so it was another smooth transit. We pulled up to the pier at 8:00

Alaska 2024 - Day 2 Juneau

Alaska 2024 - Day 2 Juneau

Saturday, 10 August 2024 On the second day of our cruise, we got to see Juneau, Alaska. Although Juneau is the Capital of Alaska and the third largest city in Alaska with an estimated population of 31,337 as of 2024, Juneau has no highways connecting it to the rest

Motion Map of Seward to Hubbard Glacier trip

Alaska 2024 - Day 1 Hubbard Glacier

Hubbard Glacier is the largest tidewater glacier in North America, with a length of 76 miles and a width of seven miles where it meets the ocean...

Photo of Alaska 2024 Bus Boarding Passes

Alaska 2024 - Day 0 Embarkation

8 August 2024 Our cruise on Silversea Muse started in Anchorage Alaska, where we went to the Egan Conference and Convention Center. We gave them our luggage and they assigned us to one of the departure busses. We arrived quite early in the morning and were on the first bus

Photo of Alaska 2024 - Ted & Galina departing Vancouver

Alaska 2024 Cruise!

We just returned from our first cruise! We did 14 days on Silversea Muse. It was fantastic! We'll be featuring a blog article and YouTube vlog for each day of the trip plus some other interesting tidbits. Subscribe for free to get updates whenever new posts come out

Photo of Welcome to Valdez sign

Welcome to Our Two Cents Travel!

This is Our Two Cents Travel. Real stories of real travel by Ted and Galina LeRoy. We share our adventures from trips close to home, and on the other side of the world from us. If you'd like to catch an update when we add content, you can