Thursday, September 22, 2011

Our Cruise Tour to Alaska

   On August 23, 2011, we started on our Princess cruise-tour (or should I say tour-cruise since we toured first then cruised) to Alaska.
   This was the most tiring and boring day of the whole trip.  We boarded a Delta flight in Albuquerque, NM and took off at 6:15 a.m. After less than two hours we landed in Salt Lake City where we had an almost two hour layover.  The next flight took us to Minneapolis/StPaul.  - We went backwards one time-zone and flew for about 2 hours.  Here we had an almost four hour layover.  Then we flew to Fairbanks, Alaska - a flight of almost six hours, arriving at 8:15 p.m. Alaska time (10:15 Mountain time.)  Total hours flying ~ 10. Total hours "traveling" -  16.

Our first plane (taken from within the ABQ airport.) John is reflected in the window, too.