Returned again this year to Juneau to introduce ourselves to our first grandson, Diego, born July 3rd. We lived downtown Juneau from 1990 - 1994 at 241 Front Street which was directly above the Imperial Bar. In the middle of the first foto, you can see the top floor where our room was (corrugated galvanized metal). Second foto is street level. Third foto is Mount Juneau as seen from downtown. All three fotos taken from the downtown public library which is located on the top of the parking garage.
Mendenhall Glacier and the bears at the base of it. My baby grandson lives about a mile from the glacier. That's right, the same bears who come by the house at night and try (usually with success) to open the locked garbage cans.
View from a lookout above the airport looking toward downtown (first foto) and looking at the airport runway (second foto). Baby Diego lives about a mile from the airport. Everything in Juneau is very close together (distance-wise).
If you look closely at the first foto, I believe you can just barely make out the bridge that connects Douglas Island to downtown Juneau.
Our son-in-law served an Alaskan King Crab dinner at home thanks to what he caught in a trap the week before. We also had crab on a second occasion downtown.
At the Alaskan State Museum, I found an antique "diaper" used by the indigenous tribes who first populated Alaska (forerunner to Pampers I guess you could say). I changed just a few during my visit (Before we left, Diego upgraded from the newborn'a to the next larger size).
We visited a cool botanical garden hidden away in the forest. Many plants have to be stored inside a greenhouse during the winter. Can you spot the bear in the photo?
There are four or five cruise ships that dock right in the middle of downtown. I suggest anyone and everyone should take advantage of such convenience. On the first flight home, the elderly lady next to me was flying back to Montana after having her fractured hip repaired with a pin in a Juneau hospital. Come to find out, her cruise was cut short when on the first or second day she tripped on a chair leg and suffered the broken bone. She was in very good spirits, considering how she and her daughter missed out on almost the entire paid trip.
We missed the whales in the area during the summer, since our boat "captain" was having a little engine trouble and we stayed home (better safe than sorry).
Around the corner from the Federal Building, I was served some home-made caramel ice cream in a local business made from the hatch chili (see photo). You can bet it was spicy, but delicious.