Alaska trip photos

Hi guys! It it great to be back on the EILL blog. I still haven't quite recovered from the trip down to Honduras. We left the following Friday for Anchorage and I am still stuck on AK time. Anyway, at the risk of posting too many pictures, I wanted to show y'all how unbelievably beautiful this part of the world is. There are several ships that cruise in this area and it is very easy to do (after that long 7 hour flight, that is).

My son Andrew and I took a helicopter to the top of a glacier outside of Juneau and got to explore on ice that is slowly moving and almost a mile deep! The blue color of the ice was breathtaking. We also rode some off-rode vehicles to the top of a mountain and saw a grizzly bear and a large black bear. There were bear dropping all along the trail which made everyone a little nervous, but we didn't have any real close encounters. Bald eagles soar like buzzards do here in Texas; they were everywhere!

I would also highly recommend a stay in Vancouver, BC. It reminds me of San Francisco, only cleaner and with flowers, sequoias, and parks on every other block. Water taxis are the preferred method of travel across the city and the people could not have been nicer.

It seems Catrachos are hard to escape. On the ship I met about 6 people from La Lima, San Pedro, La Ceiba, Roatan, Santa Rosa de Copan, and Yoro. Too weird!! They work for 7 months at a time and then go home for 2 months. We had some good laughs. One guy graduated from "El Patria" and his uncle works at FHIA. Go figure...

I hope everyone is well. We need to get busy and set the date for reunion #2. Cuidense, Mark