Off the Rails in Alaska

Join me on a journey through my adventurous summer in Alaska – where work meets wilderness and every day is a wild ride!

  • Season Ending

    Today we head out on our last run of the season. We will take people up to Denali. Stay overnight in Healy one last time. Then head back south tomorrow. By July you wonder if you’ll make it through the summer. Then just like that it’s over. I’m excited for the last run. A few Read more

  • Continued

    It took awhile to finish this. My family visited and my thoughts were elsewhere. So here it is! I started cashing the passengers out. Right away I’m met with resistance. “That’s free. We only had one coffee each. It’s free”. Sometimes by the end of a long day, passengers forget what they had first thing Read more

  • Excitement!

    As of today, Monday, September 7, I have three train shifts left. We are currently on the bus headed to Portage to catch the train to Whittier. We will pick up cruise passengers and take them to Denali. It will be a long day. Tomorrow we will bus back to Anchorage. Tuesday we are off Read more