I woke up early and got in a great workout once again.
Paul's pictures from his
vacation
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Paul: Fishing from a cool perch
09:36 Alaska time 10:36 California time
Paul: Cabin with a hot tub, trout lake with kayaks, and a game room
with a full size Galaga and Ms PAC MAN
Paul: Good place!!
09:46 Alaska time 10:46 California time
Dusty: Greetings from near Ketchikan, dock in under an hour and just
got cell service back...weather reverted to dreary with a chance of
shitty...
Dusty: Paul, is this a different cabin in a different location?
10:05 Alaska time 11:05 California time
Paul: Nope
Paul: Same cabin
Paul: In the woods on a pond, kayaks came with it (great surprise!)
Paul: The pic of the kids on the rock is Little Payette Lake from
yesterday, not the pond
10:07 Alaska time 11:07 California time
Paul: Took various combinations of the kids out fishing on the kayak 8
times over 4 days
Paul: Tay caught 6 fish, the rest of us got shut out
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Dusty: Creek street, old historic part of Ketchikan, from balcony of
our room
Dusty: That appears to be the only thing worth seeing, at least
in cruddy weather, according to tripadvisor and our limited interest in
endless amounts of totem poles...kinda chilly out..
Dusty: officer of the watch just told everyone to basically stay the
hell away from the gangways until we are fully docked, I assume theres
a crowd down there dying to get off to spend too much money on touristy
crap
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Michael: Hold on to your wallet in there.
11:40 Alaska time 12:40 California time
Ray: Another exploited sex worker...
11:40 Alaska time 12:40 California time
Dusty: The tourists are the ones being exploited now...
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Dusty: $10 admission to the museum
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Dusty: US National Forest visitor center was apparently sponsored by
the lumber and mining industry
12:35 Alaska time 13:35 California time
Paul: Dusty, what's the name of your boat?
12:36 Alaska time 13:36 California time
Paul: I'm still hoping it's Boaty McBoatface
12:40 Alaska time 13:40 California time
Dusty: Westerdam
Dusty: Westerdam and Nordam make the same weeklong trip,
alternating directions all summer long
Dusty: Nordam had a norovirus outbreak in June
Dusty: They have hand sanitizer everywhere onboard, but also tell
you that it doesn't stop norovirus..
12:39 Alaska time 13:39 California time
Michael: Shippy McShipface
12:40 Alaska time 13:40 California time
Dusty: The Amsterdam is also in port, no idea yet where it goes
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Dusty: Hundreds of tourists paid good money for a tour of a rainy
harbor that they should have already seen a few hours ago when we
cruised in and docked...before it was raining...
Dusty: Darwin keeps loosing
12:58 Alaska time
The Amsterdam, a third Holland America ship...
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Kent's pictures from his skateboard ride
14:05 Alaska time 15:05 California time
Kent: On my skate ride today I stumbled into a Tongan picnic
Kent: They do pork! Yummy.
14:16 Alaska time 15:16 California time
Kent: Looked like they had hours to go
Kent: If I was a kid in 2018 I would have killed myself on these bike
paths
now! A big difference from the giant dirt hill I would ride on
price rd
14:21 Alaska time 15:21 California time
Dusty: Any ship this size is a big maze..
Dusty: Kathy's dad
knows the ship better than either Kathy or her mom,
probably due to numerous coffee runs
Dusty: Kathy does reasonably well at this point
Dusty: Took me a couple of days to figure things out but i
still occasionally mistake some of the bars and other stuff on decks 2
and 3
Ray's pics from his backyard
18:11 Alaska time 19:11 California time
Ray: Ended the day short of the goal
Ray: I need to work on my jugging technique
Ray: Everything's set for round 2 tomorrow
Ray: I got up to the crux, but then had a dilemma on how to exit, so I
slung the big branch on right and rapped down
18:12 Alaska time 19:12 California time
Ray: Here is my anchor and lawn mower back-up.
18:25 Alaska time 19:25 California time
Paul: What in God's name are you on? Your pro is a lawnmower?
18:28 Alaska time 19:28 California time
Ray: Yes
Ray: It's my backup anchor.
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Ray: In case the cinder block blows out.
[on Sunday after I got the pictures]
Dusty: Ray you clearly need about 14 more lines into that tree
Dusty: Otherwise it might start floating away
Dusty: You set the emergency brake on the lawnmower, right?
