 The Golden Gate Bridge, as seen from the cruise ship. |
 Under the Bridge. |
 Approaching the Inside Passage. |
 Inside the Inside Passage. |
 A waterfall. |
 Flowers on a hike near Skagway. |
 The forest. |
 The river. |
 I think these plants are called "Devil's Palm" (or something like that). If you accidentally touch the underside of the big leaves, it will HURT. |
 Downtown Skagway. |
 My big ol' boat. What'd you think I was talking about? |
 I took this photo at about midnight. It stays light 18-22 hours in the summer up north. |
 Downtown Hoonah, a town of 800 people. A thousand people lived here until a couple of years ago, when the logging trade ceased. |
 Hoonah's marina. |
 A Jewish tombstone in Hoonah's old cemetery, which is no longer in active use. People are now buried on a small island nearby. |
 The road to (and from) Hoonah. |
 A very successful rose bush. |
 A cat engaged in a deep staring contest with a caged bird. |
 A fascinating (to me, anyway) slug in Ketchikan. |
 We went on this extremely steep hike in Ketchikan. It's three miles straight uphill; we made it to the end of the first mile. (On the way up, we were strangely passed by a jogger, who ran like someone in the marina heading to Peet's.) |
 We were rewarded with a nice view. |
 A totem pole in the nearby village of Saxman. |
 Heading towards the Hubbard Glacier. |
 Getting closer... |
 Ice, ice baby. (I've been waiting to use that line.) |
 I didn't get any really good pictures of iceburgs breaking off and falling into the ocean. I kept trying to will such an event by chanting "Go iceburg! Go iceburg! It's your calve-day. It's your calve-day!" |
 The Mendenhall Glacier, near Juneau. |
 A view of Juneau from the top of the gondola. |
 An eagle which is being rehabilitated after an injury. |
 Mount Roberts(?) in Juneau. |
 The obscenely lavish midnight buffet on our ship. (No, we didn't actually eat any of it, just ran through and took pictures.) |
 An ice scupture at the buffet. |
 Some interesting graffiti in Vancouver. |
 A cool B&B in Victoria. |
 All the best B&Bs have at least one cute dog. |
 And the best bike shops have a cat hanging out near the cash register. |
 The women's room sign at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle. |
 Fan mail from Jane Wiedland. |
 My cousins' cat. Such a great face! |
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 People with glass pianos... |
 Seattle at sunset |
 A statue of Lenin in the Fremont district. |
 Cool gate decorations on a museum in Fremont. |
 Sunset, as seen from the train to Portland. |
 The Saturday crafts market in Portland. |
 The Portland Chinese garden. |
 Dramatic doorway. |
 Another view of the garden. |
 Midgets selling some kind of wealth-building plan on an infomercial. What's that about? |
 The Kennedy School, a very cool hotel/pub/restaurant/movie theater complex in Portland, built in an old middle school. |
 Art/mosaic thingy on the wall at the Kennedy School. |
 SpoonMan at the Crafts Market. |
 I thought this sign on the side of the Amtrak train was amusing for some reason. |
 On the Coast Starlight, we met this 94-year-old man. (My jaw dropped when he casually mentioned joining the Navy in 1928.) |
 View of a bridge as seen from the train. |
 Near Martinez, I think. |
 Tracks. |
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