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have heard that before.... grins.

There aren't a lot of rv's in the bush either, just sayin.

Good point! I should have stated "along most highways". I was thinking about places like the Denali Highway, which is pretty remote by lower 48 standards.

There's remote and then there's bush. Not always the same.

A frank talk about bush on a Honeymoon thread??? It seems... well... it seems tacky!

Lets not get sticky here, Art.

Some specialize in tacky.

Well, I am a lifelong Alaskan and also spent my honeymoon traveling around the state. Denali park was great. And the Captain Cook in Anchorage is the best hotel for getting to know one another. Just put the sign on the door before you go to bed.... Cruze portage and out of Seward and you will see some great sights. You could also take the train to Whittier and see come college fiords.

Took a girl on a date once - snowmachining out of Pt Hope for caribou. Our first date. Her mistake was racing after the sled behind me after she fell off...

She knocked a caribou dead at about 400 yards the first time she ever shot a big game rifle (.25-06), tho she'd had some .22 experience back in Montana - (Figured I'd better not pizz this one off too badly!) Our second date a year later was on an 18 mile back-in backpack sheep hunt. I killed a full curl.

The following year was the same hunt on our honeymoon. She killed a full curl.

(In between details not available...... )

Been stuck with her for the last 33 years.

You gotta watch out for those things, guys!

I got married in Anchorage, my wife and I flew there from TN, tied the knot then headed down the Kenai in a rental. Stopped along the way a bunch, several days in Cooper Landing and fished the Russian and the Kenai. Wandered down to Homer and fished the Anchor and later went halibut fishing. Ate great food and met a bunch of good folks. Went back five years later and did sort of the same trip but earlier in the season. Maybe next trip I could figure a way to get some hunting done Just waiting for those lottery tickets to pay off.

Congrats!!

Try to get your hands on a Northern Lights coupon magazine. NORTHERN LIGHTS It'll have all kinds of coupons for about every entertainment you can imagine. It'll have many 2 for 1 coupons where you pay for 1 person and the other is free. We took a long glacier tour from Seward that way and it saved us a bunch. To buy a new one is pricey, but if you know someone in AK, they might find you one for free that has a lot of unused coupons left over, or at least give you some that they know they won't be using. That's what we did. Then we gave extras to others we met along the way.

Interesting. First I've heard of this.

All,

Thanks for the info and suggestions. Definitely a lot to look into!

Bimmer

No one has mentioned an Alaska cruise. My oldest daughter and her new hubby loved theirs--Princess, I believe. They fished out of Ketchikan and Sitka, whale-watched out of Juneau, and enjoyed the WP&Y train in Skagway. You can't beat the food and entertainment on board, and the lttle verandas off the rooms are a good place to see seals and the odd whale. While small, the staterooms are big enough for what's necessary, of course.

The ferry through the islands can be pretty good, too, and you can take your car. They have rooms but a lot of people camp out on the deck - likely not the best arrangement for a honeymoon, of course.