Alaska
Travel Brochure
Excerpt from the Article…
Like the shifting of an iceberg, one’s perception of the land and its people is ever-changing. From the shining cities to the tiny fishing villages, each has a color and heritage all its own. Skagway, the jumping-off place during the Klondike gold rush of the 1890’s. Sitka, ancestral home of the Tlingit Indians and later a Russian settlement. And the quaint community of Seward, hugging the shores of magnificent Resurrection Bay…
“Get me up in a helicopter? ‘You’ve gotta be crazy,’ I told him. Next thing you know, I was looking down on huge chunks of blue ice over Columbia Glacier. The guide told me this ice was once snow about 2,000 years ago. Now it stretches over an area six times the size of Washington, DC. I was so captivated by the scenery, I completely forgot I was up in the air.”
