Dale Shipp (1:261/1466) wrote to Steven Horn at 23:07 on 14 Jul 2008:

 DS> They did still have webmail, and their forums.  It was from the
 DS> forums that I found out about the changed port numbers.  Another
 DS> problem was that some places charged more than I wanted to pay for
 DS> wireless access. The worst of all was on the ship.  They wanted
 DS> $0.75 per minute.

 When I was in the Netherlands, I found a wifi supplier who offered a week
of unlimited access for 24.95 Euro.  More than I'd like but a lot less than
$0.75 per minute.  I subscribed.
   
 DS> Quite a bit -- three days aboard ship was about as much as we'd
 DS> want to do though.  Food was excellent, but the rest of the on
 DS> board activities were just ok.  Scenery off the port side was great
 DS> though.

You were coming north so shouldn't the best views have been on the starboard side?

 DS> The road from Whitehorse to Beaver Creek was something else
 DS> though:-}} The cry of the day was "pothole!".

The road should have been fine from Whitehorse to Haines Junction.  After
that it has real problems with frost heaves (not potholes) even though
millions have been spent to repair these.  When my wife and her mother
accompanied me to Fairbanks in 1993, my mother-in-law got so upset by the
Destruction Bay-Beaver Creek experience that on the way back we took the
Top of the World (Taylor) Highway from Tetlin Junction to Dawson.  Loved
the trip and saved the bumps. 

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn{at}northwestel.net)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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