Our grown children gave my wife and I a cruise to Alaska for our mutual birthdays. What a great present to parents. All children should be instructed to do something so nice!!!
Alaska is 4 time zones away and it felt like we were on another planet. Not much population density up there. Sarah Palin certainly has room to spread-out. Being so far away from North Carolina, Research Triangle and Durham was a breath of fresh air (literally). Wide-open spaces; glaciers that knocked our socks off; enormous expanses of open territory; waterfalls galour; orka and hump-backed whales gliding by our boat and playfully jumping out of the water.
The trip was glorious, but even more glorious was our return to our home turf. Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill is a little too crowded, but that is a sign of progress. There weren't many restaurants in Skagway or Juneau to compare to Nana's, The Lantern, Bullocks, Sishi Sushi and many others. The price of gas was not even much less up there.
Alaska was a vacation of a life-time, but coming home is always a great treat as well.
The decision by our children to give us this treat involved few trade-offs: perhaps sun and warm versus cool and dramatic.
We are trully blessed to have such a treat (and such wonderful children/adults) and we are many-times blessed to live in North Carolina.
BestHomePro might eventually help people find homes in Alaska, but it will be a while until we have features such as "Caribou view" or "glacier view."
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