The Magical Navigator

We did not arrive in Ketchikan until about 1 p.m. due to pier construction at another terminal. This pushed our gangway opening back to 2 p.m. and set our all-aboard time at 7 p.m. That sounds like five hours of port time on paper. But in actually you never want to be that person arriving…

Standing on the upper deck of a catamaran, surrounded by chunks of ancient ice floating in near-silence, with the face of Dawes Glacier rising in the distance, is not an experience that translates well into words. I’m going to try anyway. If you’re sailing a Disney Alaska itinerary that ventures into Endicott Arm, you already…

The Disney Magic docked here on our Alaska sailing, and I’ll be honest I didn’t know much about the place going in beyond “zipline” and “whales.” The port was something that felt different from every other cruise port I’ve walked off a gangway into. The story of Icy Strait Point is the story of the…

Skagway is a small cruise port in southeastern Alaska with an old western, early 1900s feel about it. That’s not an accident. Six blocks of downtown are designated as a National Historic District, and almost 100 buildings from the Gold Rush era still stand, with the National Park Service actively preserving many of them. It…