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I have compiled some stats for our trip. 28 days 320,036 steps walked 213.9 kilometers walked 2195 kilometers driven 14 flight sectors 24312 Air miles flown 6 airlines including private flight to Katmai National Park -Virgin Australia -Air Canada -Delta -Alaska Air -Qantas - private flight...

Back in Australia and after a few days back to work. Our flight back was amazing, we flew Qantas in J in the old first class cabin. There were 8 pax in this cabin and service was amazing. There is something nostalgic about a 747. Just after take off I got a card delivered by the he CSM with...

@Pushka I use an Olympus E620. Most of the wildlife photos have been with an Olympus 70-300mm lens with auto focus and auto stabilization. I have had the camera for a while and it is starting to play up a bit, and I am looking at upgrading. This camera has a unique lens attachment that is...

We are now sittI got in the Air France Lounge at SFO. Check in with QF was a breeze and we have our preselected seats 3E and 3F on QF74. We selected these seats as they are the only J seats where both have direct aisle access and we can sit together. I am going to put some stats together for...

Our last day in San Francisco and we ventured back to Fisherman’s Wharf for a Segway tour with City Segway Tours. This was something we had not done before and had plenty of opportunities for photo stops, and informative narration from our tour guide. We were given a quick lesson and a short...

Friday night we walked to AT&T park, about 1 1/2 mile walk from our hotel. We watched the San Francisco Giants beat the St Louis Cardinal 3-2. We bought our tickets from Stub Hub, and if you are interested in inexpensive tickets in a great location, try stub hub for reseller tickets. These...

The Parc 55 Hilton is located right on Market Street, near to Union Square, and we were able to catch the tram straight to Fisherman’s Wharf. A visit to San Francisco must include a clam chowder sour bread bowl from Boudin bakery, so that’s what we did. Once at the original bakery and again...

Ryan The next day was a sleep in and check out at 11am. To the airport and we parted way with our travelling companions as they were returning to Vancouver for their flight back to Australia and we were heading to San Francisco for a few days. We love San Francisco, and this time stayed at...

Back to the train menus briefly. If you are in gold dome class, the meals are included. The prices are for those passengers in Adventure Class.

The next day was a day my wife was looking forward to since doing the research for this trip. We drove the 20 minutes to The North Pole. Yes a suburb called The North Pole were all the Street lights are painted as candy canes, the police badges have candy canes on them, and all the streets are...

After arriving in Fairbanks, and doing a bit of a car shuffle between the rental pick up at the airport and the rail station, and the hotel because no mini van type vehicles were available, we had an early night. TIP: hire cars from National rental vehicle are not in good condition, filthy and...

A bit out of sequence, but in Homer, the morning before we left I went to the local float plane area and watched a few take off for bear tours. Near to the lake was a very interesting photo opportunity. I am not sure if this is where they hold their meetings, or took the opportunity to use...

We were travelling in the Gold Dome class, and were allocated Car A, seats 4A and 4B. These seats were right up the front and not only a side window view, a top view through the glass dome you had a forward view ove the locomotives. TIP: If you do this trip try and get at least rows 1-5 in Car...

We left Homer early and drove back to Anchorage and had an early night for our train trip he next morning to Fairbanks. The Hertz downtown drop off is not easy, and I am glad we did a drive by and dropped in the afternoon before. We were told there was an early morning drop box, but that was...

We were recommended a restaurant, Fat Olives, in Homer. It is a pizza, pasta restaurant so we ventured out and had some amazing pizza and pasta and beers and wines. They mixed up our order and Cooke did the same pizza twice, and for $80 for the four of us, with drinks we walked, or should I...

An early start the next day to avoid the buses from the sea princess and the one way tunnel out of Whittier. The drive to Homer was about 4 hours and although the scenery was good in places, it was a pretty boring drive, until you got to the approach opinto Homer. A park with spectacular views...

The 26 Glacier tour commences with an early check in at 10:30am and then a wander around the harbour until boarding at 11:45am. Lucky there are plenty of photograph opportunities and the time went quick. When you board you go t9 your allocated tables. We had a table of 4 and a table at the...

When we told people in Anchorage we were travelling to Whittier for 2 nights their response was “why”. After arriving in Whittier I immediately agreed with them, but let me say it was well worth the 2 nights just to relax and not have to drive to and from Whittier before and after the 26 Glacier...

We then headed to the Alaskan Wildlife Centre. This is about 1 hour from Anchorage and cost $15 per person. It is not large, but a very impressive place. This is really a zoo for orphaned animals, and include buffalo, wolf, black bear, brown bear, reindeer, and moose. You can drive around or...

There is an area called Kincaid Park just beside the airport in Anchorage. We ventured there to see if we could spot any wildlife. Just as we drove in there was a Moose with her calf right on the side of the road.