June 10, 2007
Posted by: Dick Wilson
On Board Columbia
It was still raining this morning when I woke up at 6 a.m. The ship was pulling into Ketchikan. There were several other large cruise ships in port there. We got off and walked on tara firma for about one hour and had a cup of coffee at a local restaurant. As we pulled out of Ketchikan, heading north towards Wrangell and Petersburg, the weather broke, and there was sunshine and at least some blue sky. Wrangell and Petersburg are much smaller towns. The Columbia stopped to drop off and pick up passengers. Throughout the day, we snaked our way through channels, some of which were quite narrow, and the ship was only a stone’s throw away from shoreline.
We ran into a young fellow named Peter Hammett who has a home in Boise (small world again), and he is riding his BMW GS 650. He is heading north, but he is not sure he will make it north of Fairbanks. He has previously ridden a KLR down the Baja to the Mexican mainland and back to Idaho. He is a pleasant, outgoing fellow. He joined us for dinner and discussions of South American politics with Steve.
I turned in early with the expectation of getting up early in the morning when we make a port call at Juno at 4:45 a.m./7:30 a.m., pick up e-mails, and download the Akaska Caper blog. The boat trip to date has been an excellent experience, relaxing, with great food, quite reasonably priced, and a reasonable assortment of interesting people to talk to.
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