Today, after much planning & months of anticipation, we finally arrived in Alaska.
We are only going to scratch the surface while we were here & unfortunately it is the well beaten tourist path. Most of the state is so inaccessible that you don't really have a choice. Looking at the map below, we will follow the blue path from Seward to Fairbanks for the most part.
Our main stops in order are; Anchorage, Seward (Resurrection Bay), Whittier (Prince William Sound), Anchorage, Denali National Park, Fairbanks.
So this morning we jumped on one of Air Canada's awesome little Brazilian built Embraer ERJ-190 jets (above) to Vancouver & then an Airbus A319 to Anchorage.
We arrived a little after midday giving us enough time to grab something to eat & have a bit of a look around the city. It's nothing special & is a bit of a tourist trap (like Banff) in that there are a couple of streets full of gift shops. The restaurants were set up to gouge tourist as well, but we caught a hot tip to go to a place called Humpy's which is basically a uni pub. The food was really nice & the service good. As usual it's a good plan to get off the tourist trail.