North to Alaska
After spending our last summer vacation in the South, this year, we decided to take a turn North ... to Alaska! We'll be on the Norwegian Sun sailing from Vancouver, Canada to Seward, Alaska; then spend some time in Anchorage to tour Denali; then head back to Vancouver for a few days to explore the city. Our trip has been planned for months as I jenga'd across four very different Kress-Davis summertime calendars (meetings, camps, diving, more meetings, budget presentations) to find a cruise that worked (which quickly got us from infinity to ... two); obsessively scoured the interwebs for ship photos and reviews; filled my now-patented trip spreadsheet with possible excursions for family consideration; and tracked weather in a half dozen Alaskan ports of call. This sucker was buttoned up, people. But, as Outkast sings, "You can plan a pretty picnic but you can't predict the weather," and in the last week, just about everything that c...