Wrangell and Petersburg are hidden gems!

Thank you for posting this. My wife and I are planning to do a trip like this this summer. This gave us a great idea of what to expect.

I sailed on the Matanuska the summer of 1972. At that time, the Alaska Marine Highway System sailed out of Seattle, not Bellingham. The 4 ships we took on our tour of the SE panhandle, was the Malaspina, Taku, Matanuska, and MV Wickersham. We spent 2 weeks living in and working around Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, formerly owned by the Presbyterian church of Seattle synod. Since then, SJC entered receivership and was sold, the MV Wickersham was sold several times and ultimately scrapped. The Taku was sold and per Wiki is beached and awaiting scrap at  Alang, India. I remember one of my activist high school friends floating a petition on either the Taku or Matanuska for adding public showers for those of us who paid only for deck passage. Wonderful memories of that trip. Glad to see the old girl still making the trip.

Flight to Seatac and back $600
Get to Bellingham $100 x 2
Passage AMHS to Juneau $475 x 2
Cabin to Juneau $475 x 2
Hotel Juneau 6 days $950
Food 7 days $150
$3800 total one week.

Thank you for the journey and taking us along and sharing the BEAUTIFUL scenery‼️ Glad you made it home safe💖

Good jobs. Thanks for taking the time to record and edit your experience so the rest of us can get an idea of what's involved. Hope you had a great trip!

Amazing seeing others living simple as Ronnie Van Zandt moms told him and then us. Enjoy!

So glad you got to see your homeland from the water, beautiful journey and memories for you, thanks for sharing! Glad your home safe and sound

Wow! That was an awesome ferry ride. We live in Texas, and we started making plans to ride the ferry from Bellingham to Whittier before Covid hit. We are thinking that 2023 or 2024 may be our next good opportunity  to go to Alaska. Thanks so much for showing what the journey was really like.

I love your comforting voice. You should have a career in voice overs. Enjoyed .

Beautiful vlog

Thanks.....
That was a Wonderful Ride.....

Such beauty! What a adventure!💕

i am watching this for my planned trip to the Juneau Alaska.

What an excellent video by an incredible couple.  Thanks so very much for your time in producing this masterpiece for all to see.  I am looking so forward to traveling to Alaska with my 5th wheel and for the entire summer.  Have a lot of decisions to make wether to drive through BC or via ferry.  Thanks again and God bless both of you.

Thank you for the wonderful video.  Makes me homesick.  Went to college in Bellingham.

That looked like a fun but exhausting trip. Bet you were glad to get home. Thanks

Thank you for including the cost ($3200) of your trip.  It has been very difficult to get what I had thought was an accurate cost for this trip. I’d like to visit Alaska and travel on a motorcycle and have been researching options.

Beautifully done video, without usual cruisers tourist traps. Thanks for refreshing my memories! I was on Matanuska in 2012 when it hit Ocean Queen processing plant in Petersburg. I loved sailing SE islands on AMHS.

Beautiful!!!! I'm thinking of doing the same adventure but on foot.  Take the famous Denali Star to see the inland to Fairbanks to see hopefully the Auroras! Thanks for taking me for a ride with you.