We spent Monday night at an airport hotel (thanks for the ride, Matt and Megan!) and departed for Wrangell on an early-AM Alaska Airlines flight. This was our first flight on Alaska Airlines; we got a good view of Ketchikan during a stop there en route.
We chose Wrangell for the slightly serendipitous reason that a relative of a friend of ours in KS had a B&B there- which happens to be Wrangell's #1 rated B&B on TripAdvisor. The Grandview turned out to be a wonderful choice.
We never got tired of that view, nor the view from our room, The Moose Room, which got its name from all of the moose figurines and stuffed animals the previous owner collected. The room is full of them!
We spent July 4 in Wrangell- they make a big deal out of it. The logging contests are shown below. In this one, the contestants are racing to see who can get a slice off the end of the log in the shortest time (aided by a chain saw). The target marked on the other log will be used for axe-throwing contests. Finally, in a wonderful coincidence, the ship in the background was the Wilderness Adventurer, which we'd be taking from Ketchikan in a few days. Wrangell was a port stop on its Juneau-to-Ketchikan route. We had a friendly chat with Katie, the Chief Mate, and looked forward to the cruise with even more anticipation.
A couple more views from the back porch of the Grandview. The small house was a playhouse built for Leslie, the owner, when she was a child. The Grandview dates from 2007 but the playhouse was lovingly and cautiously moved to the property from its original setting.
Here's my TripAdvisor Review of the Grandview.
We also took a trip up the Stikine River to see the glaciers. It really is a small world- our fellow passengers included former Alaska Governor Murchowski, his daughter Lisa (currently a US Senator) and other family members. Ron and I spent most of our time out on the back deck, even though it got pretty cold.
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