Vacation
I’d like to take a vacation to Alaska later this year. Not your normal cruise or touristy thing, though. I want to fly from somewhere near here to Prince Rupert, BC (YPR) and then take the Alaska Marine Highway Transit System’s Ferry to Ketchikan, AK (KTN). Spend maybe three or four days wandering around Ketchikan, then return the way I came. The ferry is only $43 per person plus $48 each way for a two person outside cabin. The cabin wouldn’t be necessary, just nice for the view. It looks like airfare will run about $400 round trip from DTW to YPR. Not bad… For a rather nice hotel (Cape Fox) the rates are $139 – $149/night or, The Gilmore Hotel, a more standard place is $90/night for two twin beds. No one was answering the phone at the Super8. That all comes out to about $666 for travel and accomodations if you figure four nights. A little more for the cabin on the ferry if needed. Add food and random other expenses and it sounds like a rather cheap vacation for such a far off place.
There’s the flights, the view of the inside passage on a six hour ferry ride. A couple days to wander around the town, hike, hit up the parks, giggle at the tourists, etc.
Sounds like my kind of vacation… Would anyone else be interested in going? I might do it alone, I’m not sure, though…