Ketchikan was a city I hadn't done any research on before
I went there, so I didn't know what to expect, but it
turned out to be a very cool stop. It is very scenic
and relaxing, and if there is one complaint at all, it's
that since it's now a cruise ship destination, it's just
LOADED with jewelry and souvenier shops. I mean
LOADED! Basically that's most of what is even in
town...but it's still very cool to visit.
We stayed at an awesome place, the Cape Fox lodge, which
sits on a hill overlooking the town, so we had a great
view from the hotel. They have a tram car that you
can take to get down to the town, too, so it's an easy
trip down. At the bottom of the tram is a boardwalk
along the water that used to be an old area of town filled
with brothels. I can only imagine what being there
50 years ago would have been like. We hung out
around town a bit during the day, and just relaxed and
took it all in.
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They say everyone has a twin, but who'd have thought the
girls would meet TWO sets of twins in Ketchikan.
Through the wonders of panoramic imagery, check out the
widescreen panorama shot above. You'll want to
scroll the whole width.
At night, we took a tour-trip to dinner which was another
paid-for-by-Fly-to-Alaska dinner. This one was to
George Inlet Lodge, where they have an all-you-can-eat
Dungeness Crab dinner, hosted by a couple of really cute
girls wearing fisherman's rainsuit bottoms. They
kept the people pumped up and fed well, with a contest to
see who could have the largest pile of eaten crab
shells. Ed turned into a raging, bleary eyed,
crab-eating zombie as his whole body trembled with
excitement as he piled bite after bite into his gaping pie
hole. 13 halves of crab later, he was done. (I
hadn't yet warned him of what all that crab was going to
do TOMORROW on his 4.5 hour, IFR flight, over Canadian
airspace with no eAPIS filing, enroute to Olympia)
With his help, our table was the clear winner on stack
height, and he got up and started to do the dance,
required of the table members. It was a sight to be
seen. This was our final night with the group, and
from here on, our flying would be all done alone.
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