The plans have been made for months, and now the time has finally come: I’m off to Alaska! I’m really looking forward to this trip, not least because my entire family will be together in one (beautiful) place, doing wacky stuff like dog-sledding. There will also be much eating of salmon, halibut and Dungeness crab, much glacier-gazing and picture-taking. Maybe there’ll even be some Tlingit-speaking, if we’re lucky. And there’s certain to be a great deal of fun.

Assuming that the rumors are true and there is an Internet connection on the boat, there should be regular Flickr updates, and hopefully even blog entries, to chart my journey from Seattle to Juneau and back again.