Visiting Seward, Alaska/Carlos Pueblo

Visiting Seward, Alaska/Carlos Pueblo

Seward, Alaska is on the outskirt of Anchorage and is a major fishing seaport

plus a key terminal of the Alaska cruise. Our back to back ends here and starts

also here, most of the times, cruise passengers are busy get on board or rush

to the airport of Anchorage to be home. This time, the cruise gave up an easy

pass no check out and check in processes just leave the room and luggage were

moved to a new designated room. We had had a whole day to visit the lovely

township for an entire day. Six years ago, I did manage to reach Seward after

wondering around the Moose Pass for a smaller glacier and I didn’t expect that

one of these days I would come back to Seward and visited two huge glaciers.

A school bus took us to downtown Seward and it was arranged by the city for

the summer vacation school bus drivers came to help the seasonal business. The

driver was very considerate to point out a coin-operated laundry shop for us just

before the main street. We walked toward a beach front park and met several

visiting families from lower 48 states. They drove their recreation vehicles through

British Columbia, Canada to Alaska for the summer, they knew and I was admired

of their determination. It is very comfortable to visit Alaska during the late spring

and summer. Now I remembered our 2010 land trip in Alaska, it was in August just

at the leaves changing color and the end of summer season. I remembered that we

did run into a creek with hundreds of red color salmons coming home. The senior

coming from Arizona told me that halibut fishing required a fishing boat because that

the string needed to reach 300 feet deep while salmons could be right on the beach.

We walked by a school called Alaska Institute of Technology and I thought that was in

equivalent to the famous MIT. The school employee told me not. It is a vocational

school to train students to meet the requirement skills for an employment. We were

recommended to hike on the back of the campus, a Twin Lakes Trails about 2 miles.

The pedestrian paths are fine; however, we exited at the second lake, actually was a

pond, to a pretty restaurant on the small top of a hill where we could overlook part of

the city. We decided to walk down the hill through a luxury residential subdivision with

beautiful gardens in the front yards. We came to the welcome center monument of the

city and got lost on our attempt to go back to the ship. Finally after many asking for

direction, we got back to the ship and saw the railroad station where you took the Alaska

train up to the north, Anchorage, Denali National Park, and Fairbanks etc.

After lunch break, we did go back to the downtown for shopping, for Amy actually. I

still had had a good memory of my last rental visit here at downtown. I found out a

town library not far from the returning bus stop. I also had had a good conversation

with a young restaurant manager from the ship while we were waiting outside the shops.