Today we woke up in Skagway. Our excursion was a beautiful train ride into the mountains. The White Pass Scenic Railway was originally built as one of two routes to get to the Klondike Gold Fields. We were not in search of gold on our trip, but it was tremendous ride through this magnificent and historical mountains. If the mountains could only tell of what they had seen over time, they would have a great story to tell. This has been by far the greatest and most beautiful excursion of the trip. We technically were over the Canadian border for a few minutes as our train engine switched sides, but we didn't get off so there was no need to have passports.
The White Pass Railroad took us up a 20 mile ride up into the mountains. After getting back from our train ride, Dad decided he wanted to mail some postcards from Alaska. We had bought some earlier, but hadn’t had time to fill them out and mail them. All-A-Board was at 4:30 so we had less than 30 minutes to get on board or the boat would be leaving us. Thus at 4:00 p.m. Dad ran back into Skagway to put postcards in the mail. I nervously waited for him on the dock. It was a long way back into town, and the Post Office was on the other side of town. But, he successfully ran into town and back in time for us to board the ship at 4:25. I was afraid we wouldn’t make it, but we did, thank goodness!!
T.J. Martin
Skagway, AK
www.tjmartin.org
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