Mother Nature foots the bill for this incredible light show in the sky. All you have to do is go to Anchorage, Alaska and stand outside …. in the winter ….. at night.
Explore the abundant wilderness of Alaska with Kenai Fjords Tours, offering daily sightseeing cruises out of Seward. Hotel recommendation included.
Sure, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people fly and sail into Alaska in the summertime to experience one of the Earth’s most abundant natural landscapes. The vibrant forests, the fluking whales, the entirely above freezing temperatures – I get it. It’s nice.
But real adventure fans say nuts to that. Real adventure [...]
I like to recommend attractions that are most certainly not just down the road. Make you work for it a little.
The Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center is not reason enough to travel to Alaska, but if your adventures do one day take you to Anchorage (and I hope that they do), this stunning, modern, inventive [...]
Looking back, our piece the other day on Swine Flu Travel Tips was missing something important: an alternative. So you’re not going to Mexico, and you didn’t score a free upgrade to Jamaica like one of the USA Travel Guide staffers did just today. What to do? Well, you can take the money you would [...]
It’s like the post that keeps on posting.
DeeDee Lewis, General Manager up at the Inlet Tower Anchorage Hotel & Suites forwarded me a couple shots from the Musher Meet and Greet they hosted last Friday. You might remember we reported on the event a couple of weeks back.
The stars of the show were celebrated mushers [...]
How’s this for good timing?
The Inlet Tower Anchorage Hotel & Suites, which I mentioned in last week’s post about the 2009 Iditarod Sled Dog Race, is hosting two Iditarod winners for a Meet & Greet on March 6, the day before the big race kicks off.
Mitch Seavey, who came out on top of the arduous [...]
When I was in third grade, we had a school project where every night one student was required to call up the Iditarod hotline and get the latest rankings to report to everyone the next day of class (this was before the Internet). The Iditarod was no small feat – bitter snowstorms, subzero temperatures, incredible [...]
At USA Travel Guide, it always thrills us feature an event as friendly, unique and spirit-warming as Anchorage, Alaska’s annual Fur Rendezvous Festival or “Fur Rondy”. A late February tradition since 1935, the Fur Rondy was first established to celebrate the arrival of the miners and trappers to the Anchorage area with a fresh winter’s [...]
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2011 Fur Rondy and Iditarod in Anchorage, Alaska
We return to Alaska for the 2011 Fur Rondy and the start of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race in Anchorage, Alaska.