ALASKA REVISTED: The Call of the Mild

Last summer I boarded a ship with 3,000 strangers and invaded Alaska. Turns out, the Last Frontier is big enough to contain multitudes. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE

FOR A COUPLE OF DECADES my wife and I listened as friends and family members announced their exciting plans to travel to Alaska. Mind you, they didn’t invite us along. No. Instead, they enthusiastically expressed their intention to go have a wonderful time without us. And they did, voyage after voyage, year after year. With time’s winged chariot hurrying near, we decided it was maybe now or never. So we booked a cruise on Holland America’s Nieuw Amsterdam, and invited our niece along. She accepted!

We had a wonderful time, as I hope you’ll see below.

Then one thing led to another, and I wrote this story about the Alaska ferry system for BACKPACKER.com, and I was invited to join the hosts of the Alaska Uncovered podcast to talk and talk and TALK about it. It’s amazing how much I don’t know about Alaska, and now the evidence is fully laid out for all to hear! We did have a few laughs over the course of 1h, 12m, and 25s, so give it a listen when you’re cleaning the bathroom, driving a lo…