{"id":3823,"date":"2015-07-07T18:09:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T01:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2019-03-20T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T16:28:15","slug":"slow-coast-glacier-bay-07032015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3823","title":{"rendered":"Slow Coast \u2013 Glacier Bay \u2013 [07\/03\/2015]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"selkies-choice-jennifer-hickey\"<\/a>July? How is it July already? Time flies and all that\u2026<\/p>\n

It feels like ages since I\u2019ve been back to Alaska, and yet at the same time it feels as though I never left it. The world shifts and changes all the time, but somehow Alaska remains the same \u2013 and I don\u2019t mean than in a boring way. I adore Alaska, despite the sometimes bumpy relationship I have had with it in the past. I\u2019m still not sure what\u2019s waiting for me at the edge of the ice this time\u2026but we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m finding it\u2019s also interesting to see somewhere you have seen so many times before \u2013 through the eyes of someone that\u2019s it\u2019s brand new to. I don\u2019t actually get the chance to work with a lot of new hires \u2013 one of the downsides of working on the flagship all the time, they don\u2019t send newbies there very often \u2013 but at the moment my current roommate is brand new to shipboard life. It\u2019s a surreal thing, looking at someone and almost completely seeing who you<\/em> were what seems like a very long time ago. Amras and I were sitting with her at lunch in Ketchikan the other day, and suddenly found ourselves remembering sights that we hadn\u2019t actually been to see in ages\u2026<\/p>\n

Oh, are you a candy person? If you\u2019re a candy person you have to hit Ketichi-candies, but it\u2019s expensive\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Etc etc\u2026<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s been fun. Enough so that we didn\u2019t really mind the fact that after a half hour walk to the restaurant we wanted to go to we found it closed for the July 4th<\/sup> holiday\u2026so we have to wait till next week to have pancakes.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve only had one bout of rain, yesterday in Skagway, so we took shelter from the wind and wet in the tiny theatre on Skagway\u2019s main street to watch The Days of \u201998<\/em> show that\u2019s put on every season. It\u2019s a really cute little show, and the performers do an excellent job of it. Much to Amras\u2019 shock I steadfastly refused to be pulled up on stage \u2013 I am not that great with being put on the spot, I become painfully ridiculously shy in such circumstances, so I stayed firmly planted in my seat; for which I apologized afterwards.<\/p>\n

And then suddenly, after a whirlwind of unexpected and thankfully quickly (though not necessarily easily) resolved drama \u2013 we find ourselves back in Glacier Bay.<\/p>\n

There is a lovely kind of peace to the slow ride up and down the coast\u2026as I\u2019ve said before, I think I\u2019m going to like it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July? How is it July already? Time flies and all that\u2026 It feels like ages since I\u2019ve been back to Alaska, and yet at the same time it feels as though I never left it. The world shifts and changes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-below-the-waterline","category-northern-exposure-2015"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-ZF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5302,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions\/5302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}