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In 2016 we took a two month odyssey through Alaska, Canada and mainland U.S.A. with two other couples. One couple (who we’ll call ‘TeenyPeeny’ and ‘Cankles’) traveled with us from Australia and the other couple (who we’ll call ‘Pachos’ and ‘Don’) were stationed in Washington D.C. at the time through work. For the sake of fairness, we’ll refer to ourselves by our Team Alaska names (Jo was ‘Pretzel’ and Rob was ‘AndRob’).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back…this turned out to be one of, if not, the best trips of our lives. It had been eighteen months in the planning when Pachos and Don moved to Washington D.C. for their posting. Pachos put it out that she was going to do the Rocky Mountaineer and Alaska Inside Passage cruise for her 50th to cross it off her bucket list. She asked if anybody was interested in joining them. TeenyPeeny & Cankles jumped on board and so did we. Team Alaska was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team Alaska<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Team Alaska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The magnificent ‘Team Alaska’. From left to right: AndRob, TeenyPeeny, Cankles, Pretzel, Pachos & Don.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Itinerary<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Organising a group trip where one couple is overseas required a fair bit of emailing but we finally settled on the following basic itinerary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n