Sep 9, 2009 - Skagway, tourist trap

Monday 9/07 The day starts with our host serving breakfast to all the guests. They are going to Skagway so we run into them on the boat later. ... The ride is just an hour and as we approach Skagway we see a different type of town. ... Four cruise ships are in port and they are huge! We learn that the cruise ships rule here.Monday 9/07 The day starts with our host serving breakfast to all the guests. They are going to Skagway so we run into them on the boat later. ... The ride is just an hour and as we approach Skagway we see a different type of town. ... Four cruise ships are in port and they are huge! We learn that the cruise ships rule here....

Sep 9, 2009 - Carcross to Skagway

Garden City RV Park, Skagway, Alaska. ... Carcross to Skagway Last night we decided to go ahead and drive down to Skagway for a few days in the RV instead of just one day in the Yukon like we had originally planned. ... We pulled out around 2:00 local time and headed down into Skagway. ... A train was coming up from Skagway to drop off passengers to catch the buses that were waiting to take them up into Carcross and Whitehorse for the day. ... We were able to watch from a point up above while the engines switched tracks and then hitched back up to the other end of the train ready to pull it back down into Skagway again. ...

Sep 8, 2009 - It is ferry time in AK!

We made our first stop at the Skagway port train station after we disembarded from the ferry in order to book passage on the tourist train to the White Pass from Skagway. ... Tuesday, Sept 8: Welcome to Skagway. ... 9: Still held captive in Skagway. ... She has requested to be assigned to Skagway again next year. ...

Sep 6, 2009 - Haines - Wow, what a road

Sunday 9/06 Moe and I get coffee and gas at the same shop we hit a few weeks ago northbound. Great time! Tomorrow is ride to the ferry dock and board the boat for Skagway. ...

Sep 6, 2009 - Alaska is a true frontier.

Sept 5 & 6: Friday, Sept 5: Welcome back to the Yukon! The weather forecast was not too bad, so we did not dress in full rain gear.Sept 5 & 6: Friday, Sept 5: Welcome back to the Yukon! The weather forecast was not too bad, so we did not dress in full rain gear....

Sep 3, 2009 - Alaska Cruise Day 4

Day 4 Skagway When we awoke and looked out our stateroom window, we were dockside in Skagway. ... We’d covered about six hundred miles! Skagway has about a thousand inhabitants. ... Skagway is also part of the setting for Jack London's book The Call of the Wild. ... Skagway was a sleepy little place until the Klondike Gold Rush in 1896. ... White Pass, into the Yukon, then back to Skagway on the train. ...

Sep 1, 2009 - In Alaska

Here we are, in Alaska. We've had huge fun everywhere, and Alaska gave us sun for the first time the locals had seen it in 16 days! Skagway is lovely, but crowded, so yesterday, after lunch, we headed up the valley on the White Pass train. ... Beautiful scenery, stunning drops off the tracks and over rather rickety-looking bridges, with diesel smoke blowing through our hair.Here we are, in Alaska. We've had huge fun everywhere, and Alaska gave us sun for the first time the locals had seen it in 16 days! Skagway is lovely, but crowded, so yesterday, after lunch, we headed up the valley on the White Pass train. ... Beautiful scenery, stunning drops off the tracks and over rather rickety-looking bridges, with diesel smoke blowing through our hair....

Aug 28, 2009 - Skagway

Aug 25 Tuesday Travel from Destruction Bay to Skagway, Alaska 273. ... There is only one way in and out of Skagway by car. ... The address of the production was on 6th and Broadway streets in Skagway, so they say they are the best show on Broadway. ... The play’s main character, Soapy Smith, was a colorful local legend who reigned over the town of Skagway during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897 and 1898. ... His band of thieves ran Skagway for only nine months but at that time, Canadian Mountie Sam Steele described Skagway as “a little better that hell on earth”. ...

Aug 28, 2009 - Leg 28, Destruction Bay, YT, to Skagway, AK (Tuesday through Friday), August 25-28, 2009

Just after the border, we began an 11-mile, 11% descent into Skagway, stopping at U. ... We rolled into the Garden City RV Park in Skagway about 3 PM, Alaska DST, with a light rain which got heavier as the afternoon wore on. ... Day 2 in Skagway (Wednesday, August 26, 2009) Our caravan attended a “Days of ’98 show, featuring music, recitation of Robert Service poetry, a short play, and cancan dancing. ... This show was based on the historical account of conman Soapy Smith’s reign over Skagway, and his nemesis, Frank Reid, the good guy, and their ensuing gunfight which resulted in both men dying. ... Afterward, we walked the streets of Skagway with passengers of 4 cruise ships; Skagway was as we remembered it from our visit in early September 2004. ...

Aug 24, 2009 - Skagway AK, 8am - 9pm

Monday, 8-24-09 - Skagway AK After cruising in the Gulf of Alaska and through some channels, we arrived in Skagway early this morning. ... Skagway is "the gateway to the Yukon". ... Within a year, Skagway was the busiest town in Alaska with stores, banks, restaurants, hotels, dance halls and saloons. ... Looking much today as it did then, Skagway is a unique little town. ... It's population is only about 825 so when the cruise ships are in town, it can easily be multiplied by a thousand! Skagway reminds me of a western type town in the old west. ...