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A MYSTICAL JOURNEY
A 7-DAY CRUISE THROUGH ALASKA’S GLACIER COUNTRY
| STORY & PHOTOS BY JOANNE DIBONA |
t took a while to call up adjectives to describe the various Yes, Alaska had been on my “places to visit” list for years. I’d
emotions I experienced during my first visit to Alaska. heard friends wax poetic about their Alaskan travel experi-
ences, recounting their impressions as they came face-to-face
I “Enchanting,” “magical,” “unbelievable,” “overwhelming,” and with pristine wilderness for the first time. Only in retrospect,
“awe-inspiring,” were some of descriptive words that coursed once I myself had my spirit lifted by images of surreal land-
through my brain as I sat down to write this narrative of a remark- scapes and unending forests and tundra, could I understand
able travel adventure. I think I finally settled on “mystical.” their reaction to being as close to untouched nature as many
of us urban dwellers will ever get.
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