Eighteen Hours by Ferry

Photo: Ketchikan. Photo credit: Werner Bayer via Flickr. Public domain. Article by Claire Carlson. The Daily Yonder – June 4, 2025.

Up until last week, Alaska existed only in my imagination. I pictured a vast landscape full of glaciers and grizzlies and Chris McCandless in his teal bus outside of Denali, living off the land until it killed him. Just like any preconceived notion, I was mostly incorrect about what Alaska is. I spent the week in coastal Southeast Alaska, first Ketchikan and then Juneau, with my mom, who had also never been but knew far more about “Seward’s Folly” than I’d ever been taught. […] 

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