M&R's Vacation Stories

If you'd like to skip my ramblings, here's all the  Part 3 images .  Images are in order of the story. "I am convinced, after only two visits to "The Great Land," that Alaska is one of the most impressive reservoirs of beauty and wilderness - an inexhaustible resource for creative interpretation. The Alaskan scene has been but lightly explored by the serious artists in all media" -Ansel Adams Surprise Glacier August 24 - Whittier/Anchorage/Denali Well the cruise is over, and they kicked us off the boat (literally) at 840am but we thought it would be fun to continue to see more ice while in Alaska.  Hey, it might all be gone by the next time we come back so might as well see as much as we can.  We signed up with a local boat provider who does a 26 glacier tour of the local area (Prince William Sound and the local fjords, and one of the fjords on the list was College Fjord, bad planning on our part).  Bad part about the tour was it didn’t start ...

If you'd like to skip my ramblings, here's all the  Part 2 images .  Images are in order of the story. August 17th - Vancouver Finally a day where we were not stressed for time or had a list of things we needed to accomplish for the day.  We slept in, well 930 is sleeping in to me at least and Rebe was shocked that I woke her up so late, but like I said we didn’t have anything to do or anywhere to be.  It was now breakfast time and of course we had to score another great meal, and the internet led us to the Templeton.  Templeton in Vancouver It was tiny diner right around the corner from our hotel, and classic in the diner sense.  It was small, about 6 booths and 10 spaces at the counter, and there was one young lady running the entire diner with no notepad and just doing it without thinking.  She was serving, taking payments, and managing new patrons that walked in and had to wait in the non existent waiting area.  Food was good, w...