Dave’s Live from Amsterdam 14-day Alaska, August 24 – September 7, 2014

[Copper10-8]

Victoria, a great city! Really like the inner harbor:)

[cruz chic]

Can't believe its over already! Thx so much for a great thread and all your effort.

[Himself]

Dave; you haven't lived until you've tried a bit of Sambal ;) Goes well with the Nasi Goreng, Sate Ayam and Krupuk plus clears up your sinuses at the same time

 

I have gone 75 years without it and I have lived every day of it.

[Himself]

Dave: I went on Luvtotravl's link to Seattle on the day's postings and saw the Amsterdam just pulling into the dock area. Welcome home! I am sure the two week cruise was all too short. Thank you for all your postings.

Himself

[VermeulT]

Thanks Dave (again).

 

I'm very excited to hear you had an Indonesian lunch... it leaves hope that the line hasn't forgotten their name.

 

Here is a shot of you docked at 7:05am local time this morning. Welcome back.

 

 

 

And thanks for your live from. I have especially enjoyed it.

[SightCRR]

Dave,

Thanks for letting wife & I share your trip. I would say "Dave's got more to read and see" then we would enjoy it together. Still cant believe the great whale photos from Sitka with a 5x zoom. I wish we would have had the menus before we went in June.

Thanks Again & Safe Travels to You

sightcrr

[boards]

Thank for the great description and pictures of your cruise. I don't think we will ever get to Alaska, but think I have come as close to really seeing it through your thread.

[Himself]

Thank for the great description and pictures of your cruise. I don't think we will ever get to Alaska, but think I have come as close to really seeing it through your thread.

 

I have been there 17 of the last 18 Summers and that is a Blessing. I love that place.

[JimAOk1945]

Dave,

 

I have enjoyed "cruising along" with you. Your thread is fantastic! Although we have been to Alaska twice on seven day itineraries on other cruise lines, we hope to go again in 2016 on a 14 day HAL cruise to celebrate our anniversary.

 

Thanks again and happy cruising to you and your wife wherever you go.

Edited September 7, 2014 by JimAOk1945

[RetiredMustang]

Dave,

... Still cant believe the great whale photos from Sitka with a 5x zoom. ... sightcrr

 

I set the camera at its highest resolution (4288 x 3216), figuring I would have to crop the shots down to get something. But, even so, we were closer than I though we would get. For comparison, here are the "raw" shots of one of the whale tail photos and one of the otters, to show how they looked at simple 5X zoom before cropping:

 

 

 

 

Glad you enjoyed the blog; I enjoyed doing it.

 

Dave

[RetiredMustang]

Sunday, Sept. 7, Debarkation Day

 

We arrived in Seattle on time and with great weather – VermeulT captured our arrival with a web cam shot. We had chosen late independent departure, since we are staying the night in Seattle. Our time to leave was 9 a.m., and we had a very easy time going ashore, finding our bags, going through customs/immigration and out to a taxi. We checked into our hotel, and went out for lunch, and have now caught up the computer with Norton and Windows updates.

 

Here are today’s Cruise Log pages:

 

 

 

 

With that, I will close the blog, except for answering your questions.

 

Hope to see you on another Dam ship sometime,

Dave

[Mtn2Sea]

Thanks so much for doing your review! I really enjoyed going along with you. Safe travels to home.

[1of4]

Thanks again for the pictures and blog. Really enjoyed your cruise. Enjoy your day in Seattle.

[Southern2]

Thank you for taking us with you on your cruise. Your time and effort is much appreciated.

[rajkr74]

Dave,

Thanks again for a great blog on your Alaskan cruise, as always you produce a very informative one. Makes us want to book another cruise to Alaska. Wish you a safe trip home. Thanks.

Rick & Joyce

[ChaCr]

Like many others, I thoroughly enjoyed your blog. Special thanks to you for those great photos.

 

thanks

 

Charles

[Linda&Vern]

Dave - Thank you so much for doing this blog. We did this 14-day trip in May 2011. I think it is important for others to see and understand the difference between a 7-day and a true 14-day trip. We thought this itinerary was wonderful. Thanks for the memories, and thanks for sharing with others.

[jaspersmycat]

Dave,

 

It was great meeting you on this cruise. I hope to sail with you and Kathy again.

 

Elsie

[lsmommy]

Here is a picture of you coming into Tracy Arm, we were on the DCL Wonder.

 

[Don't spammy]

Thanks for sharing your trip.

[Cruiz'nBaers]

Thanks Dave.

[Lizzie68]

A wonderful blog, and a big Thank-you from me.:) Done many 7 days to Alaska, now planning on a 14-day adventure.

[fm6175]

Thank you for a wonderful read .

 

 

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[Okie1946]

Thank you for the great review - especially enjoyed reading about Kodiak and Homer.

 

We did this cruise in September 2012 and we planned on doing it again in 2015.

 

When we did it in 2012, we missed going to Kodiak and Homer because of a fast moving storm, that we had to out run. The captain rescheduled to go to Skagway, but that was closed off also (same storm). Instead we did Glacier Bay but we still missed two ports. We want to be able to go to those, before we move on to another cruise.

 

The Statendam is scheduled to go there in 2015, but don't know if it will or not with the sale to P & O winding up. The renovation list has been posted. Does anyone know which ship will be replacing the Statendam on the schedules.

 

Thanks

 

Okie1946

Edited September 10, 2014 by Okie1946

[RuthC]

Hi, Dave. Nice to meet you on board, and wish we had been able to spend some time really chatting.

I just spent the last couple of hours reading all about your cruise (and checking out some of the pics), and realized again that two people on the same ship at the same time take two different cruises. :) You seem to have had a great time of it! The pics were great.

 

Thanks for refreshing my memory (it's short these days) of what it was like.