A day in Haines, Alaska

Me in Haines at the Visitor Center

Fort Seward

Joelle

Flowers in a garden

Okay, more like an afternoon and that's just about all you need. But we had fun and it was good to see a new place. We took the 8 am ferry over from Juneau. We almost did get to go, there were no parking spots in the lot to leave the truck. They let us park in "crew" parking, there was one spot left. It was raining, but we started our walk into town. The only "taxi" service in Haines is $20/per person. To go 5m, I don't think so. We did have a "gentleman" stop and ask if we needed a ride, he gave me the willies, so we passed. A little later a young girl stopped and we rode into town with her. We went to the visitors center, asked about where to find a coffee shop and headed out to find it. As we walked we stopped at some of the shops along the way and there was the girl who gave us a ride.

We checked out the shops, went to the old military barracks, hung out at the library (we were done with "site seeing" (nothing left to see), then we went to have dinner (at 4 pm). We were discussing if we should spend the $ and call the taxi service when Joelle asked the waitress if she knew of anyone who would like to make $20. We ended up getting a ride from one of the cooks. He was a young guy who had moved to Alaska recently from Wisconsin. He drove an old Chevy with hole din the floor boards and a cabbage patch kid head on a stick in the be. It was a fun little ride. We spent the rest of the day at the ferry terminal and then headed to Skagway on the 10 pm ferry. More on our trip to Skagway later. MJ