Alaska: The Last Frontier
On July 23 my mom and I boarded a flight from Seattle and flew 3 hours and 43 minutes to Anchorage, Alaska's largest city. What were we doing there, you may be asking? Well, let me start at the beginning. Like all good trips, this one started at the computer. My mom is a travel agent, so she's always booking trips for people, and as you've probably guessed from our lifestyle, she loves to travel. She'd been wanting to travel to Alaska for some time, and since we were in the northwestern area of the United States this summer, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to catch a flight up to Alaska. So my mom booked a 7-night Princess cruise for her and I, and before we knew it our departure date had arrived! As I said earlier, we flew out of Seattle into Anchorage and spent the night in a hotel there the night before our cruise. We also got to meet up with some friends who are spending the summer workcamping up in Alaska, and it was so good to see them after