Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 9/11/2023
I’ve been to 63 countries and 49 states (I’m afraid to go to North Dakota—have you seen “Fargo?”). As you probably know, we’ve just returned from an eight-day cruise (after flying into Anchorage) that took us from Seward to Juneau to Skagway to Sitka to Ketchikan (and concluding in Vancouver). We sailed on the Silversea Muse, which is a wonderful ship with an outstanding crew. It has “only” 600 passengers, not thousands like some of the giants.
As expected this time of year, the weather was erratic. The temperatures were moderate (except on the glaciers) but we did have fog and rain.
Everyone we know who has taken similar cruises raved about them. I found Alaska to still be America’s great, remaining frontier. The constant mountains, omnipresent glaciers, ubiquitous islands, and fast-running rivers are marvelous. The people here are wonderful—and they are far more diverse than most places we’ve been, with indigenous people (we were impressed by the history of the Tlingets), blacks, whites, Asians and others. There was a Philippine Association building in Juneau.
We had lunch in a typical saloon in Ketchikan and the server hurried after us, as we walked back to the ship, to return my wife’s left-behind purse.
This is severe country. Off-season, many shops and restaurants close and the locals probably happily wish the tourists good-bye for the ensuing months. The air is fresh, the waters clear, the evergreens standing tall in military rows of formality, millions of them, often too close to walk among. The eagles dine on goats by pushing them over cliffs since they’re too big to take on from the sky. The bears slap salmon unconscious and drag them up the banks to allow the insects to feast for a day. Then the bears eat the fish with the insect “condiments” still on them. There are sanctuaries for injured and orphaned raptors and bears.
I knelt outside a chopper on the Mendenhall Glacier and, over a rivulet of water transiting on deep blue ice, cupped my hand in the freezing liquid and drank.
This is where minerals gathered by glacial movement turn the ice blue and green, and plankton feed on the minerals when they reach the ocean, and fish and whales feed on the plankton. I was at the beginning of a food chain formed by a glacier that came into being about 3,000 years ago, before Christ walked the earth, before the Roman Empire had arisen.
The land was none the worse for my presence, and I’m far better off for the experience. I was an imperfect person in an unspoiled land.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. —André Gide
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. —Robert Louis Stevenson
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. —John Muir
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