Toms Port Guides for Skagway

Toms Port Guides has a new 3 part guide for Skagway. They are excellent.

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/15ffde86e631b59a

DON

Thanks for the heads up. Always refer to Toms for applicable ports. Saved much and enjoyed the ports better.

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Thanks for this information! I was only able to find Part 1. Are the others to come later? Or where can I find them?

Thanks for this information! I was only able to find Part 1. Are the others to come later? Or where can I find them?

I believe that the rest are to follow.

DON

Don, thanks for sharing this.

Keith

Don, thank you - will keep my eyes peeled here on CC for notice on when the others gets posted. Very helpful, thanks again.

I emailed Tom and asked about the rest of the Skagway guides. This is his response:

Part 2 of the Skagway guide should be complete within the next two weeks.

Then I will start of Part 3 of the Skagway guide hoping to publish it in early January.

I might make a few minor updates to the Ketchikan guide; not sure.

I'll probably write a guide for Juneau but I was not very impressed by Juneau. There's not much in the city.

While I agree with Tom that there's not as much to see in Juneau as there is in the other Alaskan ports, it contains two excellent memorials, one of which is one of the most moving I have ever encountered. The first is the monument to Archie Van Winkle, the first Alaskan to receive the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Korean War. The second is the Empty Chair Memorial in honor of Japanese-American internees in WWII. (The 1942 valedictorian of Juneau High School was unable to attend graduation because he and his family were interred in a relocation camp in Idaho. His fellow students left his chair empty in his honor and the Empty Chair Memorial commemorates this event.)

Should Tom not write a Port Guide for Juneau, Frommer's has a pretty good self-guided walking tour that you can obtain online.

Good stuff, thanks for sharing. We sail for AK on April 28

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Volume 2 of Tom's Skagway Guide

https://www.tomsportguides.com/uploads/5/8/5/4/58547429/skagwaypart2_12-12-17.pdf

DON

The link to Part 1 didn't seem to work for me. It was a link to an email conversation? Could somebody repost? The link to the second part was a PDF and worked fine. Looking forward to looking it all over!

The link to Part 1 didn't seem to work for me. It was a link to an email conversation? Could somebody repost? The link to the second part was a PDF and worked fine. Looking forward to looking it all over!

They are all here: https://www.tomsportguides.com/port-guides.html#unitedstates