Where we were, and more plans...

There’s a big
A big hard sun
Beating on the big people
In a big hard world

Seward AK webcam: 
http://cam.majormarine.com/

A Place That Sums Up Alaska:  

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/20/travel/a-place-that-sums-up-alaska.html

Seward
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Next trip: Iceland, Greenland or Alaska to the Arctic Circle.

List of things to do: Hike (that's a fancy word for walking around slowly on trails to explore, not to tire myself out), kayak, camp, see an iceberg, sit in silence listening to a glacier crackle. If I could kayak to see an iceberg that would be perfect. If karma wanted to throw in a polar bear and Sigur Ros playing on the shore of the bay I would appreciate that too. I have a year to improve my kayak skills; and by 'improve' I mean get one and learn how to use it. Does anyone know where I can get a kayak?

PS: May have to add Norway to the options:



Iceland:

http://www.iceland.is/

Iceberg crashes into a boat: Wow.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/caught-on-tape-iceberg-tsunami-crashes-into-boat/2012/07/25/gJQAqJQd8W_video.html

Webcam:
http://www.inspiredbyiceland.com/icelandlive/#blaa-lonid

        

Akranes Iceland                              Gullfoss Waterfall
    

Greenland:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/page/greenland-petermann-glacier-calves-ice-chunk-large-manhattan-16812131

                     

or:


Alaska: The Dalton Highway to Arctic Circle, sans the drive through Canada!
http://www.arcticgetaway.com/dalton_highway.htm

The Dalton Highway began as a dirt road, closed to the public, and open only to people working on the pipeline. It's sole purpose was to provide a way to get people and supplies to any part of the pipeline at anytime. It was simply known as the "haul road" then. Eventually they began paving parts of it, and later it was open to the public.

"It is too cold and windy to be camping in the Arctic. A warm room in one of the local "hotels" is a welcomed break. Hotels here are actually old mancamps recycled from the old pipeline construction days".


Dalton Highway Blog:
http://www.go2moon.com/DaltonHighway.html

http://dot.alaska.gov/stwdplng/scenic/byways-dalton.shtml

 The only way to access the Arctic by vehicle is along the Elliot Highway and James Dalton Highway, the latter is a service road built in the1970s for the construction of the Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline.