Alaska TravelGram

We stopped in to interview the vintners at Domaine Rouge-Bleu in the heart of France’s Rhone River valley. Jean-Marc is the vintner. Wife Kristin has her own internet site, French Word-a-Day. We found Kristin and Jean-Marc through our good friend Karen Fawcett, the e-Diva behind Bonjourparis.com (check it out!). We even found a fellow Alaskan [...]

Have you visited the Alaska Botanical Garden? We went to their Garden Fair theis weekend and had a great time. Go check it out!

I smell cookies! It’s the latest addition over at Era Alaska! These flights are short–but they treat you right with fresh-baked cookies! Choose from white chocolate chip, regular old chocolate chip, oatmeal-raisin or sugar-cinnamon. They’re all good–and you’ll find them on Era Alaska‘s Dash-8 flights! In addition to the cookies, Era serves more than 100 [...]

Sitting in the STUDIO (WHOA!) with Big Dave Stroh, I have the opportunity to share some killer deals with the viewers.

I hope you have the opportunity to tune in to our weekly travel radio show here in Anchorage on KUDO 1080AM. We broadcast each Tuesday, 2-3pm local Alaska Daylight Time. We’re simulcast on KXLJ in Juneau, 1330AM. Or, you can subscribe to the Podcast in iTunes. Here’s a link to Tuesday’s broadcast, which featured the [...]

Whether you call it Mt. McKinley, Denali or simply “The Great One”, the mountain-of-all-mountains in our backyard is spectacular! There is so much to see and do at Denali National Park–it’s tough to do it in a hurry. Oh–the park is twice as nice when everything is 2-for-1 in the Great Alaskan TourSaver: transportation, lodging [...]

Awhile back, I gave up trying to explain to travelers why travel agents make a difference. At a certain point, either you “get it” or you don’t. Case and point: I was chatting with some travelers earlier this week. One young man was looking for a cheap ticket to Seattle (who isn’t?). They had tried [...]

This is the latest installment of our video trip log. Check out the first: our visit to the Palais des Papes (Palace of the Popes) in Avignon, including their wine store!! After flying from Anchorage on Condor to Frankfurt, we switched to Lufthansa and flew to Lyon, the second-largest city in France. High marks on Frankfurt’s [...]

This is the first of several videos we’ll post from France. I had wanted to visit Avignon for some time. First, I was interested in the wonderful food and wine in the areas in and around Provence. Also, I was intrigued that Avignon once was a “Papal State” after being purchased from France. During the [...]