{"id":3928,"date":"2015-09-12T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T01:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2015-09-12T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T01:36:07","slug":"one-downthree-to-go-skagway-alaska-09102015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3928","title":{"rendered":"One Down\u2026Three to Go \u2013 Skagway, Alaska \u2013 [09\/10\/2015]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"painter\"<\/a>And so we enter the weeks of \u201clast\u201d\u2026last salmon bake, last Tracy\u2019s crab shack, or in today\u2019s case\u2026last Skagway.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only one tiny little street, mostly tourist shops and jewelry stores, and one IGA grocery store whose shelves get more and more bare as the season gets on \u2013 but I like Skagway. They have amazing cupcakes and good ice cream, and there\u2019s no other show in the world quite like the ages old \u201cDays of \u201898\u201d (it\u2019s mostly true!).<\/p>\n

But all good things must come to and end, and just Days of \u201998 is wrapping up it\u2019s several hundredth season (no I\u2019m not exaggerating), we\u2019re wrapping up our calls here for the rest of the season. Leaving the little town tucked in the valley to the locals and the wildlife. We\u2019re one of the last ships to call here, and it was nice to have the town basically to ourselves. This time of year the ports start feeling less like tourist traps and more like real places. The wooden sidewalks have enough space to walk on, and the Red Onion Saloon actually has seats avaialble at the bar.<\/p>\n

Having been meaning to do it for weeks now, and not having another chance, we called up the Old Time Photo Studio in town and spent a giggly twenty or so minutes dressing up in gold-rush costumes for the camera. Some of the pictures even turned out, others require a fair bit of editing, but that\u2019s so not the point of doing something like that. It had been brought to my notice that I didn\u2019t really have any photos from this contract so far, so maybe this will go a small ways towards starting to fix that.<\/p>\n

We made our way through the ever present misty rain to the Skagway Brewery for lunch (mmm\u2026popcorn shrimp) and then just wandered, we ultimately ended up in the Red Onion, to say goodbye to one of the bartenders who has become good friends with Amras over the course of two seasons. She actually seemed genuinely sad to see us go\u2026end of season can get a bit teary eyed sometimes.<\/p>\n

We said farewell to the cast of the Days of \u201998 show, and Amras even gifted them a bottle of champagne.<\/p>\n

Took a quick run through the local IGA to pick up supplies \u2013 the Trans-Pacific is, after all, waiting for us in just a week\u2019s time.<\/p>\n

Then there was just time to run back to the ship for work and rehearsal, then back out for dinner and then the mad dash back home to make it for all aboard (well, we were no where near being late, but we were cutting it fine for our respective work times).<\/p>\n

And that was it, no more skagway\u2026I do hope that whatever fell out of my pocket on the run back to the ship was just change\u2026guess I might find out next year!<\/p>\n

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And so we enter the weeks of \u201clast\u201d\u2026last salmon bake, last Tracy\u2019s crab shack, or in today\u2019s case\u2026last Skagway. It\u2019s only one tiny little street, mostly tourist shops and jewelry stores, and one IGA grocery store whose shelves get more … 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":[3,80,75,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-northern-exposure-2015","category-summer-contracts","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-11m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","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=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3930,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}