I believe the Italia may have been the ship my parents and I sailed on in the summer of 1968 to Alaska. Our cabin had a bunk bed and also a single bed under the porthole, and I remember it having lots of beautiful dark wood. I am not sure about all the ports we visited, but I know we went to Skagway and took the White Pass & Yukon, and the ride in those days was longer than what they do now. I think we also visited Anchorage and perhaps Ketchikan. At some point during that vacation we visited Vancouver BC and stayed at the Empress Hotel.
Childhood memories are a funny hodgepodge - I remember the horse races on the ship, and being terribly disappointed when we disembarked in Alaska. I fully expected to be greeted by people attired as they were on Eskimo Pie wrapper, and instead, the young men on the pier were in tee-shirts!
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I believe the Italia may have been the ship my parents and I sailed on in the summer of 1968 to Alaska. Our cabin had a bunk bed and also a single bed under the porthole, and I remember it having lots of beautiful dark wood. I am not sure about all the ports we visited, but I know we went to Skagway and took the White Pass & Yukon, and the ride in those days was longer than what they do now. I think we also visited Anchorage and perhaps Ketchikan. At some point during that vacation we visited Vancouver BC and stayed at the Empress Hotel.
Childhood memories are a funny hodgepodge - I remember the horse races on the ship, and being terribly disappointed when we disembarked in Alaska. I fully expected to be greeted by people attired as they were on Eskimo Pie wrapper, and instead, the young men on the pier were in tee-shirts!