Comments on: Trip report: m/v Taku between Ketchikan and Juneau http://www.alaskatravelgram.com/2008/08/16/trip-report-mv-taku-between-ketchikan-and-juneau/ Alaska airfare deals, travel specials and other travel updates by Scott McMurren Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:32:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Ted Herlinger http://www.alaskatravelgram.com/2008/08/16/trip-report-mv-taku-between-ketchikan-and-juneau/#comment-815 Ted Herlinger Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:06:32 +0000 http://www.alaskatravelgram.com/?p=468#comment-815 I'm happy to see you flouting the Alaska Marine Highway--my wife had never been in Southeast Alaska before this summer. We flew into Juneau and ferried up to Skagway, drove a rental car up to Carmacks and stayed a couple of days there, drove back to Skagway and took the train/bus to Whitehorse and stayed there overnight and returned to Skagway for another night. Next day we ferried over to Sitka for a couple of days and back to Juneau for a few days, all over a period of a couple of weeks. We did have a cabin on the Fairweather. It was a gorgeous trip and my wife is now in love with Southeast Alaska. Having fished commercially in Southeast Alaska for some years, I am familiar with the Alaska Marine Highway; I depended on it for many years. It has long served all the people you mentioned in your column today. And now it is serving more. What astonished me this trip was the sheer number of foreign vacationers from all over the world on the ferries we were on. People from the Indian Subcointinent to South America--families from Eastern Europe to North Africa. They have found the key to the Inside Passage. I’m happy to see you flouting the Alaska Marine Highway–my wife had never been in Southeast Alaska before this summer. We flew into Juneau and ferried up to Skagway, drove a rental car up to Carmacks and stayed a couple of days there, drove back to Skagway and took the train/bus to Whitehorse and stayed there overnight and returned to Skagway for another night. Next day we ferried over to Sitka for a couple of days and back to Juneau for a few days, all over a period of a couple of weeks. We did have a cabin on the Fairweather. It was a gorgeous trip and my wife is now in love with Southeast Alaska.

Having fished commercially in Southeast Alaska for some years, I am familiar with the Alaska Marine Highway; I depended on it for many years. It has long served all the people you mentioned in your column today. And now it is serving more. What astonished me this trip was the sheer number of foreign vacationers from all over the world on the ferries we were on. People from the Indian Subcointinent to South America–families from Eastern Europe to North Africa. They have found the key to the Inside Passage.

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