Saint Greg's Jewels - Live - August 12, 2024

[Saint Greg]

1 hour ago, luvcruzing said:

I think you meant Frank Reid here.

 

Funny how Soapy was an outlaw, yet he has a big display in the museum.

Yeah Reid. It definitely confuses people I heard one lady telling her husband or whatever that soapy smith was the founder of the town.

 

[Saint Greg]

There was a rock slide here in 2022 which is why we can’t walk to the ships on this side. I think that may be why my itinerary was changed from Skagway to icy strait in 2022.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Saint Greg]

Each cruise line gets to paint a rock their first time here. Some of them are around 100 years old.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Back by that school that is now a museum is where I found the chipmunk train

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I was looking. I couldn’t find the chimney. 
 

 

 

 

 

[Saint Greg]

Let’s get this summit drive going. Jewel Wi-Fi kicked

in so I’m hopeful we can get caught up tonight.

 

 

 

 

[Saint Greg]

Paul is our driver. He was a bartender in Tempe, AZ in 1990 and someone left a pamphlet about summer Jobs in Alaska at his bar..he applied and got a job a week later. He now spends winters in San Diego but he’s been here every summer since 1990.

 

 

 

And for 15 years he’s been bringing Rusty. They drove 3,300 miles this year. He does this for 6 months and lives on that for the year.

 

 

 

 

Edited August 17 by Saint Greg

[Saint Greg]

We went by the firehouse I was telling you about but I’m on the wrong side of the bus to show you how big it is. It’s really really big for a 900 person town.

 

[Saint Greg]

Skagway International Airport. They have one flight to Canada

 

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Black Lake

 

 

Mount Hefty
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Southern glacier (to the left)

 

 

1st stop pitchfork falls. It was frozen solid when he got here in April. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Stallion]

6 hours ago, Saint Greg said:

Kwanzaa hut. In WWII the military found that this was a good way to move military equipment around with the railroad. So they came in here. They also redirected the river and now there are no salmon and thus no wildlife here.
 

 

 

 

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After World War II, veterans came back in droves—often with wives and children—to enroll at Yale. They were greeted by a familiar site: the ubiquitous military Quonset hut, adapted for married-student housing. The snow-covered huts featured 75 years ago on our January 1948 cover were on Whitney Avenue near the Peabody Museum. There were more near the Yale Bowl.

 

Large Quonset huts were common on most Colleges Post World War II due to the GI Bill and the return of veterans. My parents first home was a Quonset hut when my Dad was at Yale Law School. Talk about housing shortages. I'm lucky to be alive!

 

Edited August 17 by Stallion

[Saint Greg]

White pass railway

 

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Paul showed us photos and video from three days ago when this was all fog so we are extremely lucky 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Saint Greg]

 I walked to Canada
 

 

 

 

 

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I think I forgot to mention those poles. They’re so the snow plows know where the road is.

did I delete all of those pics? Hold on.

 

[Saint Greg]

I thought I had a good one showing both sides

but I can’t find it. They have these all down the highway on both sides for the snow plows. They just aim the plows for the middle.

 

 

[Saint Greg]

Let me come clean with something now. I’ve been doing this for a long time and this is something  that I have never seen before.

 

I’m not in good standing on this ship with the entertainment staff. Doing what I do here requires me working on this at all times..especially with their bad/non-existent internet.
 

Entertainment has taken issue with me working on this thread during shows. It came up a couple nights ago. It was bad. I had a singer yelling at me after the show. The CD talked to me after the show. It was quite embarrassing. This is why I picked the “Lincoln” seat the last two nights. It’s as far away from everyone as I could find.

 

I will not knowingly cruise with this CD again. This ship is out of Boston next year which is a route I’ve been looking at…but if I do it next year it will be with Princess.

From what I can tell there isn’t an official CD schedule but I’m assuming since she’s been CD here two summers, she’ll likely be CD here next summer.

Edited August 17 by Saint Greg

[Saint Greg]

Of course I told them to suck it tonight.

 

 

[Saint Greg]

I was just coming in that door…and when the automatic door opened…. I saw the strap and said “LIMBO!” And as I was going down a

guy walking by undid the strap.

 

 

Edited August 17 by Saint Greg

[Saint Greg]

I forgot I’m not live hold on…

 

this is at the border 

 

 

 

 

this is a fall back next to the William Moore bridge

Our driver only stops here on the last tour of the week.

 

 

Edited August 17 by Saint Greg

[Saint Greg]

Driver told us a bunch of stories. He said working in Skagway is like summer camp for adults. The last cruise of the season they all go out and moon the last ship going out. One year a HAL ship mooned them back.

 

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I did a little extra walking for this one. This is not the way to my ship…but I think it’s good with the flag and the ship and tbs snowy mountain.